> figure out exactly what you're looking for. Perhaps it's just a platform > to > vent at Microsoft - fine, vent away. If you have any suggestions for > improving the process, perhaps you should try and express those > suggestions > in a coherent manner that could be used, rather than choosing several > contradictory stances and insisting that Microsoft satisfy them all. IMHO, security issues in Microsoft OS are closely interwined, due to the centralized nature of the software. While you can easily fix Mozilla or KHTML problem without worying that it is going to break some part of Linux kernel, this might be of great concern on Windows platform. I think Microsoft got caught with all this security stuff; remember that up to Windows NT there weren't any serious security measures on desktop and networking side. Just as Microsoft got caught with the Internet (if you remember "MSN is going to be the network of the future" statements back then, and all those plans to put communication sattelites in the orbit), they got caught with security issues - if I may say, Redmond underestimated them. Now, it is going to be tough one to solve: software is centralized and interdependent, it will teke time to solve all those issues while breaking as few things as possible, and the transition simply *must* be easy for the end user, not to mention the business world that needs to get things fixed, not broken up. So I belive this security game is going to be tough and expensive for Microsoft, mainly for the reason that they integrated a lot of things. This bunch of interdependencies is going to give them a big headache. If you ask me for one advice to help resolving this in the future, it would be: stop integrating, diversify! After all, this Unix philosophy of having a myriad of small tools to solve comnplicated tasks has proven to be tougher for end user, but safer and more versatile in the end. But for Microsoft it has been just the opposite strategy. With it's set of great advantages, but with a set of painful disadvantages as well. -- Radoslav Dejanovic founder and director Operacijski sustavi d.o.o. http://www.opsus.hr
