, SecurityFocus 2004-06-28
SYDNEY, Australia--Microsoft chairman Bill Gates defended the company's handling of security patches Monday following widespread attacks on the Internet by suspected Russian organized crime gangs.
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Gates Lies
2004-06-29
Daniel Convissor (3 replies)
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Point of Clarification: Gates Defends Microsoft Patch Efforts
2004-07-01
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Gates Defends Microsoft Patch Efforts
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As for the "less than 48 hours" statement, when does "Storm Linux" automaticly get it's updates? Oh yea, it doesn't. How about any of the other lesser known varieties of Linux? Oh yea, again, they don't. I know, use RedHat, or Mandrake, or another well known variety and they will, in fact Redhat's pretty good about it.
Now I know full well, that ANY Microsoft application has it's holes. YES, it is a pain in the to deal with. And, I've seen patches take OVER 2 months to be released. BUT (Big BUT) If it weren't one of the most used OS'es on the planet, and Linux (or BeOS, or any other for that matter) was, we'd begin to see people switch from exploiting windows to exploiting whatever else was popular. Unfortunately for Microsoft they are in the spotlight, NOT linux, or others.
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