Time to rewrite Windows?
Isn’t it about time that Microsoft just did the deed and rewrote Windows from the ground up? They’ve been bashed many, many times by various malware writers and it’s getting to the stage that its not very funny any more, even to a Linux zealot like me.
It seems that Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Vista, needs a patch already. Good to see them shipping it, but for an OS that is months away from shipping, the supposed latest and greatest in PC goodness, it’s pretty crappy to have a security hole exposed based on 6+ year old code. It’s even crappier to have a product manager explaining that the code originates from 1990 and that it ‘has been ported’. It wasn’t ported, it was left lying around, they’re just tacking new stuff onto the old.
I think it’s called turd-polishing.
Microsoft Ships First Vista Security Patches
