The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft
I was talking to a high level person in charge of security at the Intel Developer Forum last fall, and we chatted about what Microsoft could do to fix things. He asked the right questions, and I told him the right answers, trust. Plus, throw everything you have out and start again. He didn’t get it. No, more than that, he was impervious to the things I was saying to him, the culture is so ingrained that the truth can’t penetrate it. Microsoft cannot fix the ‘bugs’ that lead to security problems because they are not bugs, they are design choices. [emphasis mine]
Interesting piece, but as the site I found it on said, I wonder if the facts bear it out. $50 billion is considerable cushion . . . and they’re pretty resourceful.