Last week Bill Gates got the interoperability religion. Allegedly - given Microsoft's long and sometimes less than constructive history in the field of interoperability, a certain amount of scepticism is perhaps appropriate. Hakon Lie, Chief Technology Officer of long-standing Microsoft competitor Opera Software, welcomes Gates' new-found enthusiasm for interoperability, but in the following response to Gates, has just a few suggestions about what Microsoft might do to actually achieve it.
So, Mr. Gates, writes Hakon Lie, you say you believe in interoperability. Then why, pray tell, doesn't the web page of your interoperability communiqué conform to the HTML4 standard as it claims to? Why does the W3C validator diagnose 126 errors on your page?
You say you believe in interoperability. Then why is your document served in different versions to different browsers? Why does your server sniff out the Opera browser and send it different style sheets from the ones you send to Microsoft's own Internet Explorer (WinIE)? As a result, Opera renders the page differently.
More at the source ...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-feb.mspx
MS05-015: Vulnerability in Hyperlink Object Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution (888113)
MS05-014: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (867282)
MS05-013: Vulnerability in the DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control Could Allow Remote Code Execution (891781)
MS05-012: Vulnerability in OLE and COM Could Allow Remote Code Execution (873333)
MS05-011: Vulnerability in Server Message Block Could Allow Remote Code Execution (885250)
MS05-010: Vulnerability in the License Logging Service Could Allow Code Execution (885834)
MS05-009: Vulnerability in PNG Processing Could Allow Remote Code Execution (890261)
MS05-008: Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (890047)
MS05-007: Vulnerability in Windows Could Allow Information Disclosure (888302)
MS05-006: Vulnerability in Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Team Services Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting and Spoofing Attacks (887981)
MS05-005: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP could allow Remote Code Execution (873352)
MS05-004: ASP.NET Path Validation Vulnerability (887219)
On February 8, 2005, the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release:
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9 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates will require a restart. |
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1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft SharePoint Services and Office. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Moderate. These updates may or may not require a restart. |
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1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft .NET Framework. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Important. This update will require a restart. |
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1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Office. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Critical. These updates will require a restart. |
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1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Player, and MSN Messenger. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. These updates will require a restart. |
No additional details about bulletin severities or vulnerabilities will be made available until February 8, 2005.