Please don't tell me that you honestly believe this bit of crap! Bill & Co. have a long history of saying one thing and doing another. If I were at the helm, I wouldn't release another stinking thing until everything in testing and everything in development are audited by a trusted 3rd party. What this means for Bill & Co., though, is that they will wait 7 months, state that their code audit is done, and release the same buggy junk software that they have forced down our throats throughout their small history. I'll eat my words if this amounts to anything other than another police action on the users, the security community, or just another addendum to the EULA.

If I hear "Microsoft must lead the industry" or "Microsoft will secure the internet" or "Microsoft must take the weight of blah on their shoulders" one more time, I'm going to lose my religion. Only you bunch of Microsoft PR hacks and say things like that with a straight face. Microsoft is trailing the industry in almost every measurable security field. Microsoft is trying to stay in an industry that has finally had enough. They are playing catch-up, not "leading". Have you lost your mind?

We all hear about how Linux distributions have almost as many vulnerabilities as Microsoft. That isn't bad considering there is no centralized control over the code/applications that go into a distribution. For Microsoft, that is poor. One would think that a company with strong central management, and a strong leadership would have fewer vulnerabilities than a rag-tag bunch of volunteers who do what they can on their own time. When you consider that Microsoft only really gets beat up for vulnerabilities on the OS/services, while Linux distributor get beat up on everything bundled in, Microsoft is still doing poor. While Open Source programmers, myself included, could stand to do a better job of securing code, we still do well compared to the "market leader".

No one is perfect. Microsoft has only recently decided to accept that. One would think Microsoft would be more secure, considering the amount of money, time, and effort they put into everything they do. No, wait. Only the marketing department works hard, yourself included.

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