Most of Ballmer's keynote was just smoke and mirrors but he did say one thing which totally annoyed me.
Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. "The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003 there were four. For Red Hat (Linux) 6, they were five to ten times higher," he said.
Umm, let's see. Comparing your most current product to something which is over four years old is really quite silly and calls for conclusions which just aren't there.
Posted by Josh at October 22, 2003 09:54 AM | TrackBack"Smoke and mirrors" to "really annoying." Yeah, that about covers Ballmer's range, doesn't it?
Posted by: Jack on October 22, 2003 04:53 PMAbsolutely. There was also some silly comments which slammed open source software but that's become the standard from anyone inside of Microsoft.
Posted by: josh on October 22, 2003 04:56 PMOK, now *this* is scary:
I posted that from Safari, running on Mac OS X. At the same time, I had VirtualPC running onthe same machine, running Win2k doing some stuff.
At the exact moment I posted the comment above, VPC crashed my Mac!
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