The problem with security relates to poor security decisions regarding the setup 10 years ago and Jim Achlin and his successors have acknowledged that the heady days of the 90’s turned what was an otherwise pristine operating system into what we saw with all the security issues that plagued Windows XP in the early years. I don’t know where to start given there is so much misinformation within a single post:ġ) Internet Explorer does not run in ‘ring 0’ or ‘ring 1’, it is part of the developer API frameworks that Microsoft provides to all developers and that is no different than what Apple does with Webcore/JavascriptCore or KTHML/KJS with KDE or Webkit/Javascript that comes with GNOME. They can also limp along forever by doing what they have always done. Microsoft has the ability to win by being the best. It must be “open” in the common hacker definition, not declared so by people who will never have to use it. How about a real, computer-editable XML save file instead of the broken and bribed ISO “open”XML spec docx, xlsx, etc? They could pay and push through a spec so it could be called “open”. If my Windows desktop, mobile, and cloud were lockable, that would be something that would get my attention. Apple can’t decrypt an iPhone, but everything is on iCloud anyway unless you disable backup. The next problem is they now have to offer something more and better than Apple or Google, both cloud and OS. Not more features (Remembering Apple with Snow Leopard). It may also take ending some legacy support (or sandboxing it), but it is also their frameworks and libraries and apps in addition to their kernel that need to be solid. It is difficult and expensive, but you can write very solid code.
Why does Google discover more vulnerabilities than Microsoft does? There will always be zero-days, but the NT core code is older than Linux, and you would think by now someone would have PROACTIVELY started cleaning it. It might be windows 11 or 10.5, but they need to completely refactor or rewrite the kernel for security. Microsoft needs to break one habit – they can no longer leverage their properties to give others a jarring experience like Bill Gates did with Netscape and Palm, and pushing the browser into ring zero of the OS so they could claim it couldn’t be removed.
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