Source of Worry for Microsoft
Associated Press,
Wired News,
Oct 21, 2003
Two not unrelated news items. The information mavens here at NRC have concluded that it cannot be secured, and so have disabled access outside the building, which has prompted me to install the Mozilla Thunderbird email reader, which even in beta is much nicer to use. The second item: the State of Massachusetts has decided to abandon Microsoft for future IT purchases (specifically, "Massachusetts Administration and Finance Secretary Eric Kriss instructed the state's chief technology officer to adopt a policy of 'open standards, open source' for all future spending on information technology."). The lesson: closed-source, in addition to being needlessly expensive, is insecure. Of course, we all know that... but inertia, some dirty tricks and a powerful lobby continue to prevent us from getting the software we really need.
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