On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Lori Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:05 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Darcy Casselman <<a href="mailto:dscassel@gmail.com">dscassel@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:38 AM, John Van Ostrand<br>
> <<a href="mailto:john@netdirect.ca">john@netdirect.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> > It's good to see a large company decide that all corporate<br>
> desktops should not run Windows.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://bit.ly/dk4f8B" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/dk4f8B</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> I think this has just as much to do with Microsoft declaring<br>
> war on<br>
> Google several years ago than anything else Google is actually<br>
> saying<br>
> about it...<br>
><br>
> Steve Ballmer is an idiot.<br>
><br>
> Like the article says, It probably has more to do with Internet<br>
> Explorer on Windows being the attack vector for the China incident<br>
> that Google<br>
> experienced.<br>
><br>
> Now they are having an internal mandate to use something more secure<br>
> (or less exploitable) internally.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I am truly surprised that more companies do not take this same POV. The<br>
Windows desktop is clearly the weakest link in many (most?) corporate IT<br>
structures. Any product that requires ongoing, third-party patching (AV<br>
software) to maintain a secure configuration does not belong in a<br>
computing environment that handles sensitive information.<br></blockquote></div><br>Google probably has most of its internal applications accessible via<br>a browser. So it is easier for them to move to ANY platform than the <br>
large corporation who have invested in Windows based clients for<br>their applications, and hence locked themselves to this platform for<br>a long time.<br><br>Even when things are browser based, they too often assume Windows<br>
and Internet Explorer. I've seem companies developing ActiveX applications<br>for banks in IE, and I was floored by them being totally oblivious to the security<br>implications of this.<br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
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