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Title: War on terror security measures overblown: Microsoft Post by: Alex on August 11, 2007, 08:43:29 PM War on terror security measures overblown: Microsoft
The endless security measures imposed on society as a result of the "war on terror" have become overblown and intrusive, according to Microsoft Redmond senior security analyst Steve Riley. He made the comments in a talk at day one of Tech.Ed Australia about software security. Riley also fessed up that Microsoft cocked up XP from a security perspective. "We let you down with XP," he said.Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised. News source: APCmag.com Read full story... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/143086726/index.php |