RayW
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| After reading the comments up to now...
Having been a paying corporate customer with the company called Microsoft since the 80's, I have to say that my impression is that they only innovate for three reasons.
1. Someone is getting too big in the market.
or
2. The public gets too noisy (like now).
or
3. An opportunity to lock people tighter to Microsoft.
And when they do innovate they tend to copy other prior work and modify it to be proprietary in use if at all possible. Then release bug fix after bug fix until either it works the best or (usually) there is no substantial competition for that innovation.
Look at IE, it was developed as a "Netscape killer" (term personally heard from a Microsoft rep on the phone). Once Netscape was effectively killed, how much REAL innovation has it seen (not counting things like active-x which are designed to lock you in or to lock it to windows to counter lawsuits)?
Or if they can't compete, buy out the opposition and ruin them.
So give M$ a few more releases on this security stuff (as long as people keep crying and ZA and Symantic et al stay viable), and they will have a decent firewall. After all, all they have to do is pull programmers off of another problem and throw them at this one, they have enough of them. And have done so in the past.
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