Anyone else get this?
I still don't get it...
Subject: Trustworthy Computing
Is there supposed to be a 'tm' or 'R' after 'Trustworthy Computing'? I'm sure it's a new MS Brand Name(tm)
and fake email. At Microsoft we're combining passwords with "smart cards" to authenticate users. We're also working with others throughout
Nobody has ever used "smart cards" with passwords, just Microsoft, right?
the industry to improve Internet protocols to stop email that could propagate misleading information or malicious code that falsely appears
Hmmm... My email client uses existing protocols and has no problem with false email or email viruses. Why does Microsoft feel they need to change the protocols? Most likely, they want to change the protocol so that only their clients and servers can use them (but Microsoft would never do something like that...).
email viruses like the recent "Frethem" virus propagate only to systems that have not been updated - underscoring the importance of updating them regularly.
And "frethem" was a crappy virus.
software. We estimated that the stand-down would take 30 days. It took nearly twice that long, and cost Microsoft more than $100 million.
How did they calculate that one? I bet they factored in the amount their stock price dropped due to security foobars.
tools and methodologies that will make an order-of-magnitude improvement in their work from the standpoint of security and safety.
Hmmm... If they had 0 security before, an order of magnitude improvement would be 00 - goose eggs!
Internet so that all systems are up to date. Windows Update and Software Update Services, discussed below, provide the infrastructure for this.
That is, until someone hacks the Windows Update server. ;)
and get systems back up and running in exactly the same state they were in before an incident, with minimal intervention.
Gee, does this mean I get to reboot some more?
- We have changed the way we design and develop software at all phases of the product development cycle. Our new processes should greatly minimize errors in software, and speed up the development process for new products and services.
Great. They intend to obsolete their old software even faster!
to Windows 2000-based servers and desktop computers running Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional.
And there it is! Win9X, WinME, NT4, etc, users, you're fucked! This is Microsoft officially signing off on hundreds of thousands of users.
vulnerabilities on a variety of products, including newer versions of Internet Information Server, SQL Server and Office.
What about their existing versions of IIS, SQL Server and Office? These represent billions of dollars invested in software licenses by MS Customers (tm). I guess this initiative will generate billion$ more!
- In addition to providing customers with tools and resources to help them maximize the security of Windows 2000 Server environments, we are committed to shipping Windows .NET Server 2003 as "secure by default."
In Win2K, if you turned on 'C2 Level Security' in the network management, it disabled all network adapters. So when you install this .NET server you won't have network connectivity?
- The error-reporting features built into Office XP and Windows XP are giving us an enormous amount of feedback and a much clearer view of the kinds of problems customers have, and how we can raise the level of
And a clearer idea of how many reboots people are willing to put up with - along with their credit card numbers...
users' system integrity, privacy and data security. This new technology, which will be included in a future version of Windows, will
Umm, is this another layer on top of the DOS/Win/NT/.NET pile? How big is Palladium.DLL?
enable applications and application components to run in a protected memory space that is highly resistant to tampering and interference.
I thought Win 3.0 and great ran applications in Protected Memory Space. At least, that's what Microsoft said.
compare any P3P-compliant Web site's privacy practices to that user's privacy settings, and to decide whether to accept cookies from that site.
Ok. So I'll have to run a P3P server package on my web server to let people know I'm not going to rip them off? And how much does Microsoft charge for this?
Nope, I still don't get it!
-Eric
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