Despite the firm's rapid turnaround of PCs and its very public partnership with Microsoft, Bryant said that so far it had shifted just 3,000 of its 80,000 plus employees onto Windows 7.
I noticed that I kept seeing "Free Public Wifi" APs (access points) showing up. I assumed it was someone trolling for innocents wanting to be infected with malware. I was wrong. It's actually a much more interesting Windows XP security flaw.
The takedowns of the Mariposa and Waladec botnets last week were victories for the good guys, but security experts warn that although cybercrooks suffered a bloody nose they collectively retain the upper hand in their ongoing conflict with law enforcement and its security industry allies.
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Needs Sunlight
2010-03-12 19:00:52
The other systems are so much easier to use and maintain that Windows in general is unacceptable for large businesses. You have to wonder how many people are being let go to finance the support and ongoing cleanup from Windows messes?
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-03-12 19:45:07
It's more complicated than amnesia.
Microsoft has ways of ensuring that opposition in the media stays out of the game. Robert X. Cringely, the former PBS Columnist (by the way, he got fired last month), once said that "Microsoft's goal is domination of the global information business, which is to say all business. Phone companies, cable television companies, post offices, stock exchanges, banks, treasury departments -- all of these are viewed by Microsoft as future competitors."
I can't help thinking of this interview.