Microsoft’s Most Successful Failure
m4dm4n writes “As we near the end of
mainstream support of Win2k The Register looks back at what it has achieved.
What was meant to be Microsoft’s most secure OS ever turned into a disaster.
Worm after worm changed the face of internet security in Win2k’s first 2 years.
Five years down the line the battle is far from won, but the improvements are
dramatic.” From the article: “Things were different in the year 2000.
Programmers felt vindicated that the Y2K bug didn’t turn out to be that big of a
deal. We made it past January 1st, and then it was time to move on. Windows 2000
came out that first quarter, just as security was becoming more interesting to
more people — and Windows was a good place to start. It was also seemed to be
the start of a new breed of Windows hackers.”
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