While Microsoft has been applauded for its efforts to improve security with SP2, some argue that it isn’t going to be easy. Such as Matthew Moynahan vice president for Symantec. Because of the major changes some software companies have been forced to make to ensure their software will work with SP2.
As a vice-president at security software leader Symantec Corp., Matthew Moynahan applauds Microsoft Corp.'s effort to make its Windows operating system safer from attack.
But Moynahan is not so excited about the flood of help-desk calls almost certain to come when Microsoft releases a comprehensive security overhaul of Windows XP next month. His company's Norton antivirus software runs on about 100 million desktop computers.
Microsoft has released seven security patches covering a wide array of the company's products. Two of those patches fix holes that Microsoft deemed "critical" and warned could allow remote attackers to take control of vulnerable Windows systems. The software updates include fixes for previously unknown holes in Windows, including critical holes in the Windows Task Manager and HTML help features.
Microsoft claims it has made "real progress" in the last year towards its goal of Trustworthy Computing but criticised businesses for failing to be more proactive on security.
Could Microsoft be behind a smear campaign aimed at Linux? If not Microsoft, then who? Let's look at the continued attacks against Linux. The media is peppered with them. When one starts to die down, another one crops up. While every single one of these assertions is laughable, the never-ending barrage of anti-Linux propaganda has got to take its toll on potential users.Here are a few of the accusations you might find in articles planted here and there in the media.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer came out swinging -- verbally and even physically at times, at the Worldwide Partner Conference where he mocked open source technology, Linux in particular, while touting opportunities on the company's own platforms.
During a keynote address here Tuesday, Ballmer also identified Novell (Quote, Chart) customers as prime targets for Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) partners to pick off as potential new customers.
Microsoft's chief executive has declined to give a firm release date for the next version of Windows, in order to avoid disappointing customers and partners
Speaking at the company’s annual partner conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer argued that promising a delivery date for Longhorn that the company couldn’t actually hit would be unfair for customers and partners and would make the whole Windows upgrade cycle even more painful.
The long-awaited Service Pack 2 for Microsoft's Windows XP has been delayed again. Firstly
announced for June, then July we can maybe expect it in "late August".
Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities which allowed malicious code execution, this update might tighten the the thin layer of security in Windows XP and maybe even more importantly, Internet Explorer.
There are 600 million Windows PCs today, according to Microsoft. But by 2010, there will be more than 1 billion of them, company officials claim.
Will Poole, the head of Microsoft's Windows client business, made these bold predictions here at the annual Microsoft worldwide partner conference in his keynote on Monday morning.
Poole said Microsoft expects the demand to come from enterprises in developed countries, all sizes of companies in developing markets and from OEMs that tailor Windows for specific markets.
Internet Explorer last month saw its market share drop for the first time this century, according to WebSideStory. Total market share fell by 1 per cent in June.
"It's the first time that we've seen a sustained trend downward for (Microsoft)" said Geoff Johnston, an analyst with WebSideStory. "We have a very steady trend. It's been about a month, and every day we have a steady incremental change."
