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Another step in the wrong direction

So instad of making it REASONABLY HARD for s/w vendors to deliver insecure s/w the burden is shifted to the USER of this s/w to make sure that his systems are secure! It is as if, the owner of the car has the responsibility to verify that his car wont go crazy and start running over people due to some remote exploit. There is not doubt that the sonsumer must check the quality of the product he acquires. But to place the responsibility SOLELY with the consumer as opposed to IMPOSING SOME REASONABLE QUALITY STANDARDS on the manufacturer is CHILDISH and IRRESPONSIBLE.

I cannot help but notice that this article was side by side with the "IT Salaries to drop in the future". The IT departments werer hit TWICE: the economic downturn and the UNEXPECTED COST involved in re-repatching their PCs and machine / network unavailability times.

Ohh boy: crazy world: CTOs/CEOs buoght into the fancy PR/marketing campaignes for the beautiful looking desktops (from the "software giant") only to be slammed hard with all these viruses and unending overhead to correct the problem. In the meantime, they didn't get any REAL functionality beyond that available with Win98 Office. But they did get outragious pricing options in forced upgrades and headaches from incompatible document formats.

I only wonder for how long MS will stay un-accountable for the LOST human time and resources its s/w has caused. The cost in $$ must be in the billions in the global economy...

-m

Posted by: michael-t   Posted on: 11/06/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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