After the name calling and vehement attacks on the opinion I expressed, I went and read some interviews with Howard Schmidt. I have to say, while he seemed thoughtful, many of his positions are what I expect from Miscrosoft. I was also dissapointed to read of his involvment in the USA Patriot Act, but not supprised.

Anyway, a "security" person recently (in the last six months) said that (I paraphrase) "...Microsoft has made a lot of great software. No one here ever thought that people would do the things they did to attack it." He was refering to viruses, worms, trojans and so forth that exploit bugs and design flaws in MS code. I was sure it was was Howard Schmidt who said this, but perhaps I'm wrong, and I can't find the article I saw the quote in. Does anyone have a link to the article?

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