wtf?

[maelorin]

Before security became a central theme three years ago, Microsoft had already established a reputation for taking hard or complicated IT tasks and enabling a broader set of IT professionals through interface and management usage improvements.

guess who wrote that sentence ... and what it is supposed to mean.

Jeffrey R. Jones
Director, Microsoft Security Business and Technology Unit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0605.mspx

Comments

[spaced00d.livejournal.com]

A Microsoft employee

And it means that anybody who says anything bad about Microsoft is a doody-head.

[maelorin]

i'm still amazed that someone can so casually point out that security only became an important issue for microsoft three years ago.

as for this statement "Microsoft had already established a reputation for taking hard or complicated IT tasks and enabling a broader set of IT professionals through interface and management usage improvements" - i'm a alwyer, and i'm still trying figure out if there was something he was trying so unsuccessfully to say.

and i love how mr jones casually flicks off linux options in a few sentences, as if having a choice of vendors is the bad thing.

methinks mr jones be the doody-head. he can't even use english, so why would i think he has a clue about complex anything?

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Before security became a central theme three years ago... Maybe we should have done something about those security holes in our product from five years ago... ...Microsoft had already established a reputation... Which is true. They did indeed have an established reputation. ...for taking hard or complicated IT tasks and enabling a broader set of IT professionals through interface and management usage improvements. This has several interlocking implications: 1)For making standard configuration tasks impossible due to an overly simplistic "smart" user interface that never does what you require of it. 2a) For allowing more people (who are ignorant of the consequences) to do more damage to a system with just a simple press of a button. 2b) For allowing more people to call themselves IT professionals because they can push buttons...

[maelorin]

for taking hard or complicated IT tasks and enabling a broader set of IT professionals through interface and management usage improvements.

note that he never actually says what these 'it professionals' are supposedly enabled to do!!

the whole article is full of pretentious american managerial obfuscation speak like this. enables him to brush off detractors by saying they don't understand what he's written, in a high handed way, as if not being able to understand this crap is their problem not his.

[which is precisely the problem of the whole microsoft culture. "but our software is intuitive. if you don't understand it, or it doesn't do what you expect/want, you just need to learn to do things properly - the microsoft way."]

there is a fourth consequence: 'it "professionals"' who are equally lost coz they only know how to do things according to the expensive ms manual/training course they read/went to tend to lock down as much of the system as they can. this means users have to ask the 'it professionals' for assistance whenever they need/want to do something not anticipated by the uncreative automatons ms certified netblah "engineers" [whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean - since when do these people 'engineer' anything!! aarrgh!] [[i'm ok. i'm ok. i'm calm. anger is the monkey killer, the luser death. i will not anger ....]]

this enables orgs to push a lot of tech support costs out of tech support and onto secretaries - who end up having to learn their way around the systen just to get work done - which is hampered by thier new tech support role (for which they are not paid).

therefore, to measure the true cost of supporting an ms system, the cost of this displaced work has to be taken into consideration - something ms funded surveys never do ...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

I almost laughed when I discovered the major advantage of MCSE was to be able to ring people on a special hotline and access a restricted database of what they didn't put in the manuals. Then I thought about it and almost cried.

[maelorin]

sad thing is, that hotline isn't much more use to the average msce than the manuals. after spending so much time training yourself not to think ...

my brother hasn't bothered to finish his msce because he doesn't see the point. the sad thing is, if he did finish, he could ask for a starting salary of $50k plus. just for having the msce.

he doesn't see the point because to keep your msce qualification 'up-to-date' you have to keep sitting the tests ... at a hundreds of dollars a go.

[maelorin]

and on thinkign about it, if that's the main advantage of msce ... aaarrrggghhh!

how many ways does that empire suck!