Microsoft Formally Confesses: Windows was Crap
For over a decade I had told people that the Windows operating system was never intended to be used on a network computer, that it was dangerous and irresponsible to do so. I was told this first in 1989 by a Microsoft engineer sent to school us about Windows 3.x, and again beta-testing Win95; I've seen the quote in print several times since then, clearly saying "Not recommended for Untrusted Connections" -- Did anyone listen to me?
Not to my knowledge, no. And here now today, believe it or not, Microsoft is coming clean about the whole thing, confessing their incompetence and finally formally retracting that code base which has seduced and frauded us into our virus laden reality of modern computing. Or maybe it's just a money-grab stunt to scaremonger the tardy into dropping another grand or two to upgrade into the newest bestest next pot of similarly 'expert-crafted' OS wares. Am I making this up? Nope, sorry:
Microsoft said it wasn't feasible to make extensive changes to eliminate a security vulnerability since the underlying architecture of Windows Explorer for older versions of Windows is much less robust, wrote Christopher Budd, a program manager with Microsoft's security response center."Due to these fundamental differences, these changes would require reengineering a significant amount of a critical core component of the operating system," Budd said.
[ via PCWorld.com - Users of Aged Windows Face Risk ]
read it again. louder. and as of July 11, Microsoft says they wash their hands of the whole scam, no fixes, no apologies, no reimbursements, just cut it loose, wave goodbye, so long suckers, and move on to new game.
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From Cooperation to Complicity
I've wondered how it could happen, how otherwise sane and reasonable people so gleefully put their own civilization in jeapardy as they leap whole-heartedly into a monotonic operational philosophy founded on the worst elements of business-interests gone mad, flying full-throttle into the daily evidences of spam and virus attacks, in light of Supreme Court indictments, in the shadow of all historical fiascos of monopoly supply and concentrations of authority, how could it happen? We are, they say, supposed to be the enlightened, scientific era, and the singularly most educated generation of that era, and yet, peeking at the technorati, this PR confession by Microsoft lasted less than a few hours of golly will you look at that blog time.
How is this possible? How can this be? Here now a plausible answer, a sociological result from Peter Hayes, a Modern History professor commissioned by a post-hoc guilty corporate conscience to investigate the extreme domain of people and monotonic politics gone mad:
It is likely no coincidence that Albert Einstein, who himself only narrowly escaped the wrath of said moral-abstainers, did say on this, "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Amen.