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Re: New Microsoft Security Server* (*runs Solaris)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Sun Aug 26 00:57:05 2001
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Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:40:19 -0700
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann),
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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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At 11:08 AM +1200 8/26/01, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>Microsoft is currently running a series of double-page ads in various security
>magazines advertising the new Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
>Server (see for example Info Security Magazine, August 2001, p.38-39, or
>Information Security magazine, August 2001, p.2-3). The picture in the ad
>shows a sysadmin sitting in a network room in front of the server.
>
>The server is a Sun machine.
>
>(Nice to see even MS admit that if you want a secure server, you shouldn't be
> running Windows on it :-).
>
They also have a flash demonstration about the wonders of Windows XP and
how great it is. There are many pictures in it of happy people in front of
various PC. A couple of them are people sitting in front of Macs. (One in
particular is a tower that is obviously the 8600/9600 series, and the
people are typing on what is obviously a Saratoga keyboard.)
Jon
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