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Economics of Software Vulnerabilities
From: ljknews at mac.com (ljknews)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:24:57 -0500
At 8:55 AM -0400 3/20/07, Michael S Hines wrote:
I'm not sure what your sources are but from what I'm hearing and reading the problem is that there are many missing drivers for what have become standard peripherals that people are used to - and some of the vendors are reluctant to develop new drivers (the driver technology changed in Vista - so all drivers have to be reworked). MP3 players, ePhones, PDA's, etc. have become standard components in many places... and they don't work with Vista - yet (if ever).
That is because the features provided by many add-on products depended on the longstanding loose state of security on Microsoft Windows.
It's the feature thing.... not that users are shunning security. And, at least to me, it is an indication that M$ did not understand the marketplace or rushed the (incomplete) product to market. There's more than one way to foul up a new product launch.
The previous Microsoft mode had been to favor anything that would ease feature implementation over anything that would provide security. -- Larry Kilgallen
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- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities mudge (Mar 21)
- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities Steven M. Christey (Mar 21)
- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) (Mar 20)
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- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) (Mar 21)
- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities Steven M. Christey (Mar 21)
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- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities Crispin Cowan (Mar 19)
- Economics of Software Vulnerabilities McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) (Mar 27)