Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime 182
whoever57 writes "In an interview in Der Spiegel, Craig Mundie blames Microsoft's failure in mobile on cyber criminals. Noting that Microsoft had a music player before the iPod and a touch device before the iPad, he claims a failure to execute within Microsoft resulted in Microsoft losing its 'leadership.' The reason for the failure to execute, in his words: 'During that time, Windows went through a difficult period where we had to shift a huge amount of our focus to security engineering. The criminal activity in cyberspace was growing dramatically ten years ago, and Microsoft was basically the only company that had enough volume for it to be a target. In part because of that, Windows Vista took a long time to be born.'"
Cyber criminals (Score:4, Funny)
Yep, cyber criminals armed with chairs...
Re:Cyber criminals (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Never designed to be network-aware (Score:4, Funny)
Shush you! Your irresponsible knowledge of history and politically-incorrect use of "facts" are getting in the way of us praising the perfect security of anything associated with UNIX!
Now excuse me while I go purge my SSH logs of all those pesky login attempts that I'm sure are all coming from only Windows machines since Microsoft forces everyone to use SSH on Windows. I'll ignore all those nmap reports that indicate the attack machines are actually compromised Linux boxes in Asia since its theoretically possible for someone to lock down a Linux box, therefore ALL Linux boxes are always perfectly admined and cannot be hacked!