Ballmer at it again

[yr2alex]

I thought that this might be good for laughs or better yet let the flaming begin!!!!

We actually think our software is far more secure than open source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, because we fix it, because you actually know who builds it. Nobody ever knows who builds a piece of open source software, where it comes from, who did it. see details at the following:

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1729532,00.asp

[james_in_denver]

Nobody ever knows who builds a piece of open source software, where it comes from, who did it. see details at the following:

I want to know who built IE, that guy deserves a pie in the face....maybe even two......

[LiNUxG0d]

Hahahahaha!!! How funny. I just dug up another quote I read way back.

On code stability, from Focus Magazine

Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft
hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone
calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to
be user mistakes.
[...]
I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes.
The reasons for updates are to present more new features.

Pulled off: quotesandsayings.com

*rofl*

Riiiiiight... at least the people you DON'T KNOW are fixing the bugs that you know about.

- J

[Jman]

Not suprising coming from Ballmer.

Here's something to think about. We know Microsoft wrote their products, and they stand behind them. Maybe it is harder to know who wrote a certain piece of open source code. (Although it certainly is possible to argue the opposite.) But we know exactly what is in open source code. Would you rather trust the work you can see from a stranger or the hidden magic written by some Microsoft employee?

Moved to Wibble.

[i686]

"We actually think our software is far more secure than open source software. It is more secure because we stand behind it, because we fix it, because you actually know who builds it. Nobody ever knows who builds a piece of open source software, where it comes from, who did it." - Steve Balmer, Microsoft.

The interesting part about this, checking the Microsoft Operating Systems and Programs security status on http://secunia.com/ shows that there are unpatched holes in almost all of their Products including the "Flagship" Windows XP, and Internet Explorer 6.

Yet if you check the status of Fedora 2 and 3, it shows that there are NO unpatched holes in either of the 2 products at the time of writting this. Even on previous occasions when I have checked the Fedora 2 and 3 status there have been no unpatched holes. It's showing that as soon as holes are found the are quickly patched while holes in M$ products go unpatched for a while.

I currently use Linux on 3 systems at home and hope to Migrate a 4th over soon once I can get all my programs and games running.

i686

[inha]

I think we're reached the point where people should start making threads when Balmer is not at it again. That seems to be the more rare and interesting occation.

[Shadow Skill]

Does anyone notice how Microsoft has begun to sound like president Bush and in the case of Ballmer the members of Bush's cabinet.....