Forcing Teamwork on Redmond

Forcing Teamwork on Redmond
Tim Mullen, 2002-03-25

The U.S. Air Force's security ultimatum to Microsoft is a much-needed effort to draft them into team play. But we still have to do our part.

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Forcing Teamwork on Redmond 2002-03-28
Chris-Flonet

This is an interesting turn of events. As in the past, it has been "Big" Goverment, specifically the defense complex that has turned policy into practice. One only needs to look at the 40 hour work week, hiring of minorities, and worker compensation as examples of past success.

Okay, it is a giv...

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yeppie! Timmy's back 2002-04-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

Another hum~drum story of how important MicroSlop is. Lets write about how they change industry standards to dig a deeper foundation for their products. And how they change protocol standards to only work with their product. ...

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yeppie! Timmy's back 2002-04-08
Anonymous

Take it to SlashDot.... Plenty of your anti-MS bias there. Enjoy yourself - we're looking for some solutions here - not more bashing....

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Forcing Teamwork on Redmond - from a Corporation 2002-04-08
Gord Taylor

I work for a large multi-national bank, and have run into similar issues: here's how I've pushed back to Microsoft.

MS has gone a long way to provide documentation on how to secure their Operating Systesms and Infrastructure products (IE, IIS, etc.), but my personal beef has always been that they...

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Re: Forcing Teamwork on Redmond 2002-04-15
Andy Richmond

"There are volumes of people at Microsoft who are absolutely committed to security, and who take the massive task of securing Microsoft's suite of products quite seriously. But they are not en masse -- if they spoke as an authoritative body, then things would be better than they are today. ..."
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