Microsoft, apple, and security
Microsoft is again splitting IE and windows (after tying both things to get around antitrust laws, as in “don’t ask us to take internet explorer down because it would mean removing tons of features from our operating system”)…
Back in the mid-1990s, security experts warned Microsoft that integrating a Web browser deeply into Windows was a mistake. A decade and countless security vulnerabilities later, Microsoft is tacitly conceding the critics had it right. The new version of Internet Explorer to be released as part of the Vista version of Windows this fall […] loses much of the privileged relationship with Windows that the Microsoft browser has long enjoyed
but still gives a few security advices to competitors, more specifically to Apple:
As crazy as it sounds, a member of Microsoft’s security team has blasted Apple for failing to coordinate its security efforts and to issue proper security advice.
Microsoft is really full of surprises, I guess the only definite lesson here is that it’s so big you can’t classify it anymore. It’s a bit of both, evil and good at the same time.
