Here's a report on Craig Mundie's address address to the RSA conference in Paris. It's more of the usual Microsoft bullshiznit:
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=197What I've been waiting to hear is something "real" on what they are planning but all that was presented were statistics. The numbers displayed: 78% of large UK businesses suffered malicious security incidents, 95% of all US breaches are because of misconfiguration, etc. What I wanted to see is another chart, the one displaying how many of those compromised systems were actually running Microsoft software. That he didn't show......
In order to justify the insecurity of Microsoft products, Mr. Mundie also points out that programming is too error-prone and that the complexity of the evolving computer systems is too fast for people to comprehend. This is unusual, at least when coming from a CTO of the biggest software company in the World. He's really trying to tell us that all the money that closed source software has earned them is not enough to employ quality programmers? That seems to be the biggest problem in Microsoft - it's probably not the programmers, they probably have extremely qualified people, but rather the approach that they take when developing software.
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