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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
There's a very interesting article posted at Yahoo (actually a French wire service piece) about a study released by the Computer and Communications Industry Association that we alluded to in an earlier news item today at Applelinks. This is the study that calls Microsoft's dominance in PC software a national security risk, about which this report has more to say.
With a total absence of irony, a pro-Microsoft lobbying association is calling the study nothing but self-serving propaganda to "line the pockets of a handful of large companies." But some of the security experts who wrote the study have cited some interesting subplots in the long Windows saga. For one thing, why is it that Windows is so open to hacker attacks?
According to the article, Microsoft "has been lax on security features in an effort to make computer use easier." [sic] Another cited reason are the ongoing efforts to fold every conceivable computer functionality into the operating system itself, which increases complexity and opens more vulnerabilities to hackers.
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