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Original Post: In one post, everything that's wrong with MS
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Scoble mentions a 'tech support' visit to his brother, and lets slip:
So, I went over to microsoft.com/protect and learned he hadn't loaded the latest critical updates (had most of them, though). He also had not turned on his firewall.
By the time XP shipped, there was no reasona whatsoever to ship a PC - with a firewall installed - with the firewall off. No reason at all. This kind of lax attitude towards security is one of the main reasons that we have to slog through the virus/worm nightmare we currently live with - because MS apparently thinks that having the end user be able to get his online game hooked up easily is more important than having the end user's system not become a DDOS zombie. And Scoble wonders why so many techies have a low opinion of MS.....
OK, but what happens when we break existing applications? Competitors yell bloody murder about "the evil monopoly that breaks our apps and reduces competition."
And, what do our customers do when things that used to work don't work any longer? They get mad at us.
Now, what happens when we turn on a firewall by default? Apps break that used to work. Competitors get mad. Customers get mad.
But, our customers and the world are now demanding better security over scenario enablement. So, we're gonna turn on the firewall by default starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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