RE my XP Windows got broke in a Hailstorm

>> On Thu, 19 July 2001, "John Taylor" wrote:
>> MS Passport is a good example. This will catch on like wildfire.

>LOL! MS Passport was a specific reason I moved away from that whole mess!
>If this don't demonstrate "One man's meat is another man's poison",
nothing in this forum ever will.
>(BTW, not laughing personally at your comments; it was the possibility of
different viewpoints on this that struck >me so funny.)
>Tom Liotta




Tom

After the below link.... shall we say "Embarrassment"   many big name
companies may be coming to the same conclusion you did.

I personally feel very bad for them.
Imagine,  They have . er . a couple of people ... who theoretically know
how to configure Windows servers and they couldn't keep it up.  Hmm.

Again,  I feel their pain.

John Carr

Read the whole article its really good.

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MSN Messenger partial outage: Day 7

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6473003.html?tag=st.ne.1005.saslnk.saseml

While Microsoft struggles to resolve this short-term crisis, long term the
outage casts a shadow over some of the company's newest technologies and
initiatives that use instant messaging.

In March, Microsoft unveiled HailStorm, one of the cornerstones of the
company's .Net software-as-a-service strategy. Through HailStorm, Microsoft
hopes to deliver e-commerce services, address books online, and password
management to disparate devices such as PCs, handhelds or cell phones.

Microsoft is integrating HailStorm into many new products such as Windows
XP, the Xbox game console, and the Stinger cell phone.

HailStorm, in part, relies on instant messaging.

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oh and these ( a few JUST  from July so far)

and this;

The attackers had access to a Windows NT directory that houses Web banking
customers' login names and encrypted passwords, the report stated. Using
"brute force" decryption techniques, a hacker could decrypt the passwords
and compromise accounts.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6476215.html?tag=st.ne.1003.saslnk.saseml

and this

Program may exploit Microsoft server hole
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6466569.html?tag=st.ne.1003.saslnk.saseml

and this

Microsoft warns of e-mail vulnerability
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6559890.html?tag=mn_hd

and this  (well this is from January when they were down after being hacked
but  it's REAL good)

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4606753-0.html?tag=st.ne.1003.saslnk.saseml

I got more from July but I got tired of pasteing them.
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