What we Reall Want from MSFT

Article in the UK edition of PC Pro says it all.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90636/epilog.html

Jonah

Well I got as far as where you have to sign up to read the rest. The
first part was amazing. I could hardly believe I was reading a UK writer
who wasn't knocking Bill Gates just for having become very rich. Now I
don't know how it turns out in the last reel but I wasn't quite so much
on the edge of my seat as he described the O/S he suggests.


jonah wrote:

> Article in the UK edition of PC Pro says it all.
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90636/epilog.html
>
> Jonah

Sure, a totally secure machine would be great. Non-technical people who
nothing about security love to whine and complain about. They just never
have any suggestions or solutions.

So how do you create a programmable machine that can only be programmed to
do good things, not bad things? It's like trying to invent a hammer that can
only be used to build things, not break things or hurt people. Tough nut to
crack.

"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Article in the UK edition of PC Pro says it all.
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90636/epilog.html
>
> Jonah

Don't you just love it when the Mac and Linux people start claiming it
isn't possible for a virus to infect their O/Ss?

Ziggy wrote:

> So how do you create a programmable machine that can only be programmed
> to do good things, not bad things? It's like trying to invent a hammer
> that can only be used to build things, not break things or hurt people.
> Tough nut to crack.
>

"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Sign up to be a MSDN OS Level Tester and try out Build 5472, and you will
like Microsoft a whole lot better, just FYI.

>
> Article in the UK edition of PC Pro says it all.
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90636/epilog.html
>
> Jonah

Hello!

"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:7uoac2lv1f1s7v0djn97gnujgcng9nccgv@4ax.com...

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> Article in the UK edition of PC Pro says it all.
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/90636/epilog.html

[quote: Jon Honeyball]
go back to the core NT security model and vision
[/quote]

"Microsoft need a 'Code Pope'"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1993524,00.asp
[quote: John C. Dvorak]
to back up and re-fork its OS development from
Windows 2000 Professional or even Windows NT 4.0.
[/quote]

The key to making my idea work would be to glorify
and pay a million dollars a year to the Code Pope. He
would know everything there is to know about Windows
and would have the job for life.

It might even work if there was a Pope team of three or
four people who had the final say on things. This sort of
structure would actually work well in complex situations.
Linux has a small group of cardinals with a pope-Linus
Torvalds-so the model does work.

Cheers, Roman

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:38:24 +0100, Bernie <bernie@nospam.org> wrote:

>Well I got as far as where you have to sign up to read the rest. The
>first part was amazing. I could hardly believe I was reading a UK writer
>who wasn't knocking Bill Gates just for having become very rich. Now I
>don't know how it turns out in the last reel but I wasn't quite so much
>on the edge of my seat as he described the O/S he suggests.
>
>
>jonah wrote:

He was being sarcastic Bernie - its a British art form.

8-)

Jonah

Well I'm a Brit and I didn't get it.


Jonah wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:38:24 +0100, Bernie <bernie@nospam.org> wrote:
>
>
> He was being sarcastic Bernie - its a British art form.
>
> 8-)
>
> Jonah

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:41:03 +0100, Bernie <bernie@nospam.org> wrote:

>Well I'm a Brit and I didn't get it.

He's very good at it, even better than me.

Jonah

>
>
>Jonah wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:05:38 -0500, <kevpan815@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"jonah" <jonah123@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:7uoac2lv1f1s7v0djn97gnujgcng9nccgv@4ax.com.. .
>Sign up to be a MSDN OS Level Tester and try out Build 5472, and you will
>like Microsoft a whole lot better, just FYI.

I don't dislike MSFT at all mate, I have issues with it like most of
us but I have used it since 3.1 warts and all. I use Linux also and
have issues with that OS family too. Honeywell is just poking BG with
a stick IMO, he does not appear to be that enamoured with Vista, which
is more apparant reading between the lines in his other article this
month. TBO Vista could have been so much more if they had started from
scratch and delivered all the features originally proposed, I would
have waited till 2010 for that happily. So would Mr Honeywell it
seems.

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