The FT did release news regarding the ban on windows operating machines within their premises world wide. Google have not officially said anything about it and that has not stopped the guys over at Redmond from posting a blog that quiet directly responds to the ban. We had cowered this story yesterday.
As reported by the Financial Times Google employees said Google had taken this strong step especially after the China Hack thing which was called project Project Aurora. The hackers had targeted Gmail accounts and had made it in. Google said this happened because of windows security flaws. There is now a lot of debate going on over the internet as to the actually success of the operation on whether it was a software flaw or actually human flaws. Since the attackers knew their victims quiet well.
Either ways Google will now no more have windows operated systems within their company.
Brandon LeBlanc has responded to this on the Windows Team Blog. He says even Hackers will admit that Microsoft is doing a better job at making their products more safe. He has also listed a few bullet point to drive his point home.
- We ship software and security updates to our customers as soon as possible through Windows Update and Microsoft Update to keep our customers safe.
- We highly recommend our customers enable Automatic Update to ensure they are protected from attacks.
- With Windows 7, we added improvements to BitLocker for disc encryption (we also introduced BitLocker-to-Go for external USB devices), and added enhancements to the built in Windows Firewall for better protection.
- Windows 7 has Parental Controls built in that can be combined with Windows Live Family Safety to create a safer experience on the PC for children.
Windows 7 comes with Internet Explorer 8 which includes SmartScreen Filter which has proven its success time and time again.- And Windows 7 also uses Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as well by randomizing data in memory.
The argument could go either way the fact remains that after so many years there are still so many flaws and security holes in Microsoft's windows operating system
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