Wednesday, April 11, 2001

M$: XP Will Be Secure. Really. -- 4:41 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

CNet News quotes Microsoft's Steve Lipner and Dave Thompson on the companies efforts to make Windows XP secure. The cynic in me doubts M$'s ability to secure an OS without making it unbearably unusable for end-users. However, I must admit that this is the first time I've seen Microsoft make security a big deal for a personal OS--a welcome change.

BTW, does anyone besides me find it interesting how M$ themselves are bashing Win9x/ME in an effort to sell people on Win2K/XP? A quote from this article:

Retiring the old Windows code--upon which Windows 95, 98 and Me are based--is the first step toward securing the PC. Or, as Lipner put it, "(Windows XP) is based on the Windows NT code base--it's a real operating system."

I guess "real" is a relative term.

J.t.Qbe comments: In the Microsoft world, so is the term "innovation"

News for 04/11/2001

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