Heres one for you Joe .... Microsoft has kept quiet on this one, see what you can find out about it, if this was added to IE7 no one would use anything else !!
Microsoft "Browser Shield" an article on it can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1521
See what you think !

Although there will definitely be some new additions to the "next" line of Windows, I almost feel like Microsoft is more committed to just releasing the OS already (which they have been pushing the deadline back further and further), since they have been getting so much criticism from security vendors (due to not releasing the source code for evaluation), and from the general user community for not sticking to the original release dates. As a security engineer, I wouldn't recommend buying this product for at least another year due to the unknown future bugs; as a manager I wouldn't recommend it just due to the cost to upgrade versus the added benefits to do so. On a more positive note, I feel like Microsoft is realizing that there is a problem with exploits on windows services, and is being more pro-active in developing new methods to involve the user community in discovering new threats. They are even allowing free downloads of anti-spyware software to "registered users", (and although Windows update doesn't say so, even the bootleg copies of Windows will fetch Windows updates if configured to download them automatically; which is ok, but every version of windows illegal or not should always ask to download new updates, and the user should make the final decision to accept the download; otherwise the zombie/bot net problem will just continue.) Also, maybe Windows should cut down on the amount of services packaged by default (or just give more options to an install package); less services mean less chance of a new zero day exploit compromising an unpatched machine (which is how most standard business desktops should be deployed; with only the services they need to do their job).
I think the future for Windows Security is improving, and the real challenge for Microsoft will be preventing kernel level changes due to advanced rootkits and zero day exploits and helping the average computer user protect themself while still getting the most out of their internet experience.

thank you,

Jared Braverman
Security Engineer
Secnap Network Security Corp

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from billy!!!!

Hi there -

I'm curious what Microsoft plans to do about the perceived failure of "the social" as a key element of the Zune's launch. Your own article two days ago adds to the chorus that must be making the Zune marketing team cringe:

With Zune, Microsoft seeks to create something shared, something in common. Now, if I only had another Zune or knew someone with a Zune to share with. Then: Welcome to my social.

It's really strange to me that this weakness apparently caught Microsoft totally flatfooted. My proposal (basically a prediction that MS will implement some sort of fixed sharing station -- a "zunebox" -- to supplement the very hard-to-locate Zune-to-Zune version of the social) is here:
http://www.thezunebox.com

My contact information here:
http://www.blackmailr.com/smr/about/

As I work in the IT industry, I read and watch everything that is happening. I had been a logtime Microsoft supporter and advocate. However, so far, I have seen nothing new, and as such that is how I have advised our corporate managemnt. Microsofts best product to date was Windows 2000 Professional. The only thing that Windows XP gave us was a built in CD Burning software. Vista delivers nothing that is not already available today. In addition, it is not ready today for consumer release. As I mentioned, I'm no longer a Windows supporter. I have read about all the tricks and illegal activity they are involved in.As an IT professional, because we deal with company and individuals private information, we have to hold ourself to a higher standard than those that just create the tools that we use.That being said, I cannot support or endorse a company that has been convicted of illegal activity and continues to do so.
My recomendation to Microsoft would be to stop.
Stop all illegal activity - no matter how gray of an area they think thay are in. Stop forcing hardware manufactures to include thier software. Stop thier special Pricing deals where they sell the product for next to nothing. Stop the one sided Get the facts articles which are not evenly compared to thier competiters. Stop making promises about functionality and not delevering.Stop distributing bad software - you had a secure computing inititive, the white papers were great - perhaps your developers should have read it.
I recommend to those reading this, to consider this. If you had to choose software to run your childs life support system, Would you select Microsoft Windows or something else?

I agree the best operating system is windows 2000 pro
i still have the original windows 2000 installed since late 1999...
can you say that about xp?

i was one of the original beta testers for xp..i did not like it then..and i still do not like it..
as i call xp=xp-poop sp-2 drm..reformat daily.

i got so sick of the error messages and repairing xp.

i just over wrote xp with windows 2000..on another computer.

as for vista, i want to control the computer,not the computer to control me.

First off, i am no IT pro by any means, but i do fix computers and do lots of other stuff I wish I knew more about.

After going threw all the crap with that rediculas authorization and the Indian call center calling me everthing...including telling me i was lieing to them....

well, you get the idea...i could write a page on this .

I think linux is better for lots of reasons. As work progreses on the desktop distros, I think it will be a favorite.

Vista, not

I see some have expressed a bit of my feelings about Microsoft already... shoddy products shoved out the door onto the public amidst glorious fanfare of how "wonderful" it is, illegal business practices, monopolistic strong arm tactics with vendors. But there's more.

On the positive front, MS has put together some great systems. I am an XP user, and thoroughly enjoy using it... now that it's fairly stable several years and a multitude of "patches". Windows Media Player is a decent program, as well... even though it likes to use a lot more of the CPU than most other players. Windows 2000 is still a good product.

What would I like to say to Microsoft? Forget the juggernaut strategy, as in making every stinking thing backwards compatible with each and every OS you've ever produced. I mean, if someone is running Windows 98, they ain't likely to upgrade to Vista, OK? All this miserable practice does is increase the bloat of the software and bring each and every vulnerability along with it (which, therefore, calls for a whole new "patch").

Oh, and while we're at it, not every single user is a pirate... so why are we treated as such? Yes, I know you are working to make a profit. But when I buy something, I expect to be able to use it without Big Brother breathing down my neck and having it phone home all the time. I can't even get all the stinking patches for all the screw-ups built into Windows unless I accept Microsoft's strip search. Would you but a car under these terms? A house? How about an airline ticket where you were interrogated before boarding, strip searched before takeoff, interrogated again mid-flight, stripped before disembarking, and gave the third degree before you could leave the terminal? Welcome to the world of every legitimate user of Windows XP... and Vista will be even worse??? No thank you!

And, to think, I shelled out over a hundred bucks for the pleasure of being viewed as a criminal and the possibility of my computer being held for ransom. Microsoft, grow up and start acting like a business instead of the mafia, OK?

The poster robert chambers summed it up best:
"If you had to choose software to run your childs life support system, Would you select Microsoft Windows or something else?"

Dear Microsoft Office Team:
Please publish a 64-bit version of Office for us.
Thanks in advance.

Why do I have to load a third-party firewall and virus scanner onto Windows XP - which I feel I've been running since about 2000 - to make it work securely ? Why do I lose about 30% processor power when I do. Does this happen on OS/X or Linux (No!) ?

Oh. And if you think I'm paying you $10 a month to fix your virus-ridden software, you are sadly mistaken. Which marketing idiot thought *that* would work. *Pay* MS to close the MS stable door after the MS horse has bolted ? Hello ?

I can download Fedora Core 6 for free, and get the equivalent of your Small Business Server. More securely, faster, etc. Why should I pay you ?

Why not work with ODF format ?

Why not actually develop Internet Explorer reliably so there's not a huge wait between IE6 and IE7 ? And then break a huge number of IE6-specific intranets ?

Why is Exchange 2007 just a re-hash of Exchange 2003 ? Where is the "reliable" Kodiak "Put the system on MS SQL Server" promise from Exchange 2003 ? And why encourage people to store up to 172gb of information on an Exchange disk subsystem (based on the JET/Access engine) when it takes you an HOUR per gigabyte to fix it ? This just doesnt scale ?

As a Dot-Net programmer, why not actually publish documentation on how to use the Active Directory components from all the languages you have - such as the ability to change ownership on Files from Visual Basic, or instantiating the Object Picker from VB ? Or are you seriously telling half the worlds programmers (down from 90%) to switch to C# ?

Why spend more on PR than development ? I've seen an MS ad with a lady with an air-drawn castle around her PC for three years. But Windows operating systems are appalling at security ? Why lie ? Why not develop ? Why not release *completed* software ?

Why are the people responsible for throwing away 12,000 man years of development (4,000 developers for three year) - The Vista Reset - still employed by Microsoft? I'd fire them in a heartbeat.

What does Steve Balmer do at MS aside from rubbish new partners (such as Novell/SUSE) and jump around the stage ? I keep getting told that MS employ the smartest people around.

What happened to Ray Ozzie ? He arrived like the Vista promise, and has not been heard of since ?

Oh. Love Mini-Microsoft - the one person who actually put a human face -if one you might not wish to actually know - on MS. Find him, and make him a director.

MS keep attacking IBM, yet IBM is Microsoft's biggest partner - especially IBM Global Services converting IBM Lotus Notes accounts to Exchange. Why on earth should smaller (and thats everyone else, right?) business partners do business with Microsoft ?

Why has MS expanded headcount without actually delivering core operating system content in years ? What new products - that actually make money - have you been shipping ?

How much did X-Box actually cost Microsoft ? I'm guessing $4bn of Shareholder value ? How much for the X-Box 360 ?

And lastly. Has MS paid more in court costs - fines, etc - than the tobacco companies in the last 20 years ? Who should I trust - Balmer or Joe Camel ?

Is there plans to raise the share price above the dismal $30 level its been for years ? Plans that might work ?

---* Bill

Sounds like your pretty happy with Microsoft Wild Bill ; )

Hey by the way, you know they actually improved the firewall in Vista? Yeah, they can actually block outgoing traffic now; although I can't promise that its still not going to be worth buying a third party firewall; + I heard that no antivirus software (except for Windows Live Care or something) works for vista yet.

Microsoft (and many others) has to see www.geocities.com/gmatei2000. The future in software is the Informational Individual -- the most important invention of the modern civilization! But MS don?t read ?and SOA is a hot topic because no exist anything else.

Microsoft (and many others) has to see www.geocities.com/gmatei2000. The future in software is the Informational Individual -- the most important invention of the modern civilization! But MS don't read ... and SOA is a hot topic because no exist anything else.

Operating systems as a whole are too visible . If we are to progress then we must move to a point where all things are accessible to all and look and work the same despite the operating system that underlies this. the web has improved this but we Still have issues here with different browsers, different embedded code etc.

We need the OS to be invisible and irrelevant, a throw in when you buy a computer, nothing to generate zealots or passion nothing that you ever notice is there. It will always work, always switch on and be an opaque black box. This will then be combined with high speed connectivity to plug you into services provided by the manufactures, services that you pay to use either through annual subscription or through pay as you use arrangements (thus guaranteeing their revenue streams and denying pirates their easy pickings).

So if you choose to use MS office you will buy a subscription to this and access the appropriate service via your broadband connection to do your word processing etc. This will interact with your storage service to store data, and your communications service to provide presence awareness and communications.

This will start small, indeed it already has, but ultimately games, CAD even 3D rendering can be delivered this way. Microsoft, Google etc. will become service providers to us rather than a retailer, their new software appearing as new services to be consumed or not as we see fit.

To do this we need to move beyond "owning" of things and into a place where we trust others to manage this for us. I and my generation may struggle with this, previous generations will not find it possible at all, but the digital generation is already exploring this. They store their lives in blogs and photo sharing sites etc. they are more trusting of this new world, I just hope this leads to Star Trek's federation rather than to it's borg

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