Microsoft security claims ‘exaggerated’
p2pnet.net News:- ‘Microsoft was unavailable for comment.’
That was the response from Bill and the Boyz after Microsoft analyst Joe Wilcox said MS dramatically exaggerated the improvement in security vulnerabilities because the way in which it classifies security alerts has changed.
On 1 April, Gates said there’s been a significant decrease in the number of ‘critical’ or ‘important’ security alerts issued since Windows Server 2003 was released.
But Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research’s Microsoft Monitor quoted in an infoconomy story here, says he found 15 security alerts for Windows Server 2003 since its release in April, as opposed to the nine quoted by Gates and in the first 320 days of Windows 2000 Server, discovered 28 security alerts, not Gates’s 40.
“Mr Gates and I must have a different way of counting,” says Wilcox. “My point is one of credibility, something Microsoft could use a little more of right now.”
April 5th, 2004 at 11:24 pm
Maybe if he listed the 15 we could have a discussion. I only see 9.
April 5th, 2004 at 11:32 pm
You’re honestly surprised ? !!!
Seriously . . . ? ? ? !
C’mon, you’re talking about Microsoft.
(Please tell me you haven’t lost your grip on reality.)
April 6th, 2004 at 6:47 am
Bill counts like his “Time remaining” for file copies. Randomly pics a number every now and then. Microsoft Minutes.