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Posted on 03/22/2006 6:51:38 PM PST by Panerai
Microsoft program manager Stephen Toulouse today publicly challenged Apple to hire a security expert and overhaul the way information is released when Mac OS X updates are released. "Look, the only way you can tackle security issues is by getting out ahead of them and clearly communicating to your users the threat, and the clear guidance on how to be safe," Toulouse said. "Here's the reality, for the next couple of years the Mac OS will experience increasing security threats and mark my words, the company will have to seek outside expertise in the form of a head of security communications in the next 12 months," Toulouse added. The program manager said Apple needs a person "steeped in security issues, true technical analysis, and [who] can lead a good security team to get good guidance out there," according to a report from eWeek.com.
ping
F.U.D.
MS should know.....ROFL!
I think he's just trolling for a job ;-)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that a records check in Redmond, WA will prove this guy is a registered liberal.
They know what's best for everyone.
If I were Steve Jobs I'd sue the guy for defamation, and offer to withdraw the suit if Stephen Toulouse-- or anyone at Microsoft-- could hack OSX. And sweeten it with $1 million cash.
When the experts on lousy security speak, who listens?
"I'd sue the guy for defamation, and offer to withdraw the suit if Stephen Toulouse-- or anyone at Microsoft-- could hack OSX. And sweeten it with $1 million cash."
I havta wonder how secure OSX would be if it had as many people trying to hack it as Microsoft does.
Now that's grim!
I seem to recall that Apple's biggest investor was Microsoft (1997 $150 Million). If Jobs has any brains at all, he'll shut up and continue doing whatever his Redmond WA overlords tell him to do.
The pot calls the kettle black.
That's from Microsoft?
That is the funniest damn thing I've read in a long long time.
Wonder on, squire. You're chewing on the oldest piece of MS FUD in the world.
Non-binding stock options which have since been sold.
Isn't this kinda like getting parenting tips from Andrea Yates?
Crack something in M$ and be one of a large group. Crack OS X and get your name in the history books.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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This is untrue. While Microsoft did indeed purchase about $150 million of Preferred Shares, they were non-voting. They purchased them pursuent to a settlement agreement drawn up between Apple and Microsoft... in which Apple WON.
At the time, Apple had $2 BILLION in cash in the bank.
Microsoft had to agree to continue producing and supporting MS Office for Mac for an additional five years, Microsoft had to LICENSE certain technologies from Apple for which Apple would buy the preferred stock, Apple would have to license said technologies to Microsof, and Apple would have to withdraw their lawsuit. The largest stockholders in Apple are CalPers and some other institutional organizations.
I wonder if this is an attempt to deflect attention from M/S delaying the release of Vista, yet again. Point the finger at Apple and claim they are the one's in trouble. Either that or it's pure M/S arrogance.
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