Re: FIX for ZoneAlarm & KB951748 issue released
Intersting comments.
(See details hereunder)
"H.S." wrote:
> Paul (Bornival) wrote:
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> > I am amazed by how strongly people linked to MS state that outbound
> > filtering is unecessary or even countreproductive. Yet, other people, not
> > linked to MS, think otherwise. Why is it so ?
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> Looks like MS does not want to invest time and resources in developing a
> full firewall and is thus marketing and trying to convince its users
> that outbound control is unnecessary.
I giess this is really true and is what I was suspecting.
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> Historically, MS has wanted their OS to be used by dumb average Joe
> users and thus tuned its system as such. Consequently, they compromised
> on multiuser features, restricted user usage habits and proper computer
> terminology. Result: Almost all users believe Windows must be run in
> admin mode. They do not gain any basic knowledge about computers which
> is commonplace among computer technologists (MS uses its own
> nomenclature, as you mentioned, probably based on recommendations by
> marketing drones). All this leads to significant ignorance of important
> issues related to computer security.
Also a very good point. This habit of MS to give other names to things
already existing under a well known, common name is really annoying. It goes
even from one version of Windows to the next, as seen in Vista for which I
lost a lot of time finding things which I knew rom WinXP but eventually got
other names...
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> But to be fair, these marketing strategies also resulted in the boom of
> personal computer.
I'am not so sure about that. Marketing people tend to think they (and their
recepes) make the market, but they never conduct real stidies to prove that.
In the case of Windows, I guess the success stems from two elements:
- an open base for software developpers to construct their programs (and
this is actually one oint that is being forgotten by MS ... see the problem
of ZA and KB951748 that spraked all this discussion)
- the rapid incoporation in MS products of the good things from other
programs (see Word, that was clearly inferior to other word processing
packages, but improved ... now, it also got its sucess because MS made
access to Win difficult for other programs when moving from MS-Dos to
Windows)...
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> Also, the strict control over licenses also played a very important role
> in making Linux what it is today: secure, open source and, these days,
> with better GUI than Windows in many respects. Had Windows been "open",
> maybe there would not have been as much impetus in making Linux distros
> so user friendly. I have myself seen that current version of Ubuntu is
> much more easier to install than Windows!
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