The Emperor's New Clothes Regarding Karen Forster's article
"Corporate Insecurity, the Magic Mirror, and the Emperor's New
Clothes" (March 2006, InstantDoc ID 49334), it would appear that
what we are hearing from Microsoft is the same line we get from
the government: "Yes, we have issues, but we are working on them
and already have processes in place to correct them."
Unfortunately, Microsoft, like the government, can't be taken on
its word. Only its actions count. Although I'm generally pleased
with the changes Microsoft has made so far, I believe that once
the company feels it has again locked the market down, it will
go back to the old ways. —Robert Walker  Microsoft has provided
unbelievable compatibility from one OS to the next. For example,
I had an application that was compiled for Windows 1.0, and that
same executable ran on Windows NT 4.0. It of course took two
companies— Microsoft and Intel—to create the full compatibility.
Because the UNIX world allowed universities and other developers
to create