[Pc_Support] BS Detector Off-the-Scale! Micrsoft says Monad was cut for security ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Given the fact that Monad was going to be a _true_ .NET
environment with actual UNIX-like security, this rates 10 on
the "BS Scale" for retroactive PR non-sense.  The sooner
something like Monad is available, the sooner various,
_standard_ Windows services get a more secure environment for
processing -- from Exchange's ESMTP to Windows scripting. 
It's really a complement to Indigo, which is the .NET
sandboxed (atop of Win32) run-time of Longhorn Server, and
more par to what Java already has on anything (Win32, as well
as UNIX).

Right now God knows that you've got all sorts of _core_
scripting in Win32 which was written for Chicago and
_by_passes_ even Win32's limited security model.  And a lot
of that is already tied into the MSIE client.  So, pardon my
French, this is utter and total BS and it's PR non-sense that
I can't stand.

Story:  
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122145,00.asp  



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