full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft takes 7 years to 'solve' a problem?!

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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:27:26 +0530
From: "Mike C" <mike.cartall@...il.com>
To: "Memisyazici, Aras" <arasm@...edu>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft takes 7 years to 'solve' a problem?!

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Memisyazici, Aras <arasm@...edu> wrote:

> <snip>
> M$ should just bite the incompatibility bullet and turn NTLM off
> </snip>
>

No! not without losing a big big advantage it enjoys over other platforms.
This will render god-knows-how-many binary apps useless and reduce the value
of the windows ecosystem. If I were Microsoft, I'd really consider hard
before such a decision.. see what packaging hell Linux's binary
incompatibility has taken it.

-- 
MC

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