Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Here's a companion piece to the Bill Joy observations about Microsoft's problematic security "architecture" I posted yesterday.  In this article, Scott Rosenburg points out; "The company boasts that it's making Herculean security efforts -- but throwing more people at software problems rarely solves them." [gtb] 10:49:43 AM

Here's an article detailing the problems with Hailstorm from a year ago. "If you dig through the mountains of buzzwords in Microsoft's HailStorm "white paper," you eventually discover that HailStorm is Microsoft's effort to make computing more convenient by allowing you to A) collect all your personal information in one format intelligible across many platforms and devices, and B) store all that information with -- who else? -- Microsoft. For a fee, of course. "  Looks like people understood that this was not a good thing. [gtb] 10:42:57 AM

Microsoft cancels Hailstorm. This is a very significant event.  Even Microsoft gets tripped up when they try to work against industry structure, instead of with it. [gtb] 10:36:34 AM

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