Comment Re:What are the implications? (Score 1) 441
The implications? For starters, regardless of where the security hole is, NT or Passport or Apache or wherever, hotmail is still a Microsoft-run site, and is the source of a lot of Microsoft propaganda, and considering the high-profile nature of the security hole, this is likely going to be a PR disaster for them.
Some time ago, Microsoft gradually began to trade engineering and software talent for PR and marketing talent, resulting in well-advertised software that sucks. This is, to date, possibly the most high-profile example of Microsoft's shift of priority from programming to propaganda, and hopefully will alert the public at large to a lot of the smaller issues - Outlook, Word, Macro viruses, poor implementation of PPTP, etc. that the Redmond PR dept. slipped under the rug.
Some time ago, Microsoft gradually began to trade engineering and software talent for PR and marketing talent, resulting in well-advertised software that sucks. This is, to date, possibly the most high-profile example of Microsoft's shift of priority from programming to propaganda, and hopefully will alert the public at large to a lot of the smaller issues - Outlook, Word, Macro viruses, poor implementation of PPTP, etc. that the Redmond PR dept. slipped under the rug.
