Trusted Computing may be dumb, but you're clueless

I respect your web magazine quite a bit and read it multiple times a day. However, this article has to be your most clueless from my perspective:

This is why:

All software has bugs. All software has security holes. Lots and lots of them. Microsoft is hardly alone in this regard. The more usability and features you add to your products, the more bugs and security holes you add to your products.

The logic is straightforward.

I find it hilarious that people think that going to Linux or whatever other software is going to give them less bugs and security holes. Well, yes to some extent, because you have less usability and less features. But there are still thousands of bugs and thousands of security holes (you really can't count anything by counting only the ones that are published).

If anything, Microsoft's foray into "trusted computing" is dumb. I'm sure there are people at the company (including Bill G) who know it is technically impossible for computers to be secure or trusted. It's just a really stupid marketing tactic. See where it landed Oracle with their "Unbreakable Database" . (A great article, by the way).

This whole "trusted computing" distraction is wasting a lot of people's time. A bug is found, reported, and then fixed. It's really just a matter of choosing whose bugs you prefer. I think Microsoft fixes more bugs faster because they have more resources to do it, so I choose Microsoft's bugs. Anyone else is welcome to make their own decision, but if you haven't ever used other companies buggy software, I don't want to hear your opinion about how buggy Microsoft's software is.

Ground Hog

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Subject: Re: Microsoft now serious about bugs, says Ballmer

"We learned from a Microsoft employee last week that producing code with holes in can now be a sacking offence at Vole HQ."

... because software backdoors were deliberately built-in by developers working to circumvent Redmond's famous "internal competition" initiative, where different parts of the campus were set in competitive tender with each other.

So, Harry down at Browser let Joe up in Mailclient look at how the browser was getting on, while Joe passed on what he'd gleaned from peering around inside Susan's test machine over at Office Suite... and everyone got rich on bonuses, miraculously producing code that not only interoperated marvelously, but resembled a sieve.

Microsoft: This feature is by design.

Daniel

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