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• Windows is very broken, but.. (Score:3, Insightful)

  by ajt (2546)

  I think it's fair to say that Windows is very broken, and Microsoft made a number of very poor design decisions along the way. In hind sight I think even they wish they wish they had dome some things differently now.

  The ORA book Malicious Mobile Code [oreilly.com], though somewhat overtaken by event is a very good and frightening read. Not that I used IE or Outlook before, but I'm now very anti these products now.

  However engineering aside, Microsoft and others encourage a culture of trust, easy of use, and poor secur

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  -- "It's not magic, it's work..."
  • Re:Windows is very broken, but.. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2003.06.26 6:31 (#21439) Homepage Journal

    Funny, that was the same culture that brought us rsh et all on early BSD and Unix workstations. It took years to convince vendors to not ship with that stuff turned on by default and to provide secure alternatives. I don't see Microsoft being any slower or quicker.

    -Dom

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    • Re:Windows is very broken, but.. (Score:3, Insightful)

      by nicholas (3034)

      I don't see Microsoft being any slower or quicker.

      but also I don't see them learning from the mistakes of others. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it (apparently a quote from George Santayana)
      • Re:Windows is very broken, but.. (Score:2)

        by Dom2 (2981)

        I always preferred the Henry Spencer version:

        Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

        -Dom