Microsoft&#39;s Chief Linux Strategist Interviewed
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sl0wp0is0n writes &quot;Computerworld has published an interview with Microsoft&#39;s chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor. It&#39;s interesting to find out that Microsoft thinks and predicts Novell (SuSE) will be the
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla Corp. has hired a former Microsoft Corp. security strategist to help lock down its open source products against online attacks. Window Snyder, whose hiring was announced Wednesday, worked on Microsoft's security driven Windows XP Service Pack 2 update. She also had a role in the development of Windows Server 2003. Snyder will take charge of Mozilla Corp.'s security strategy, a role previously handled by Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer. "Window has joined MozCorp recently as our new "Chief Security Something" (that's a working title)," said Schroepfer in aÂ blog posting. "She'll be the public voice of Mozilla Corporation on security issues and helping to drive our long-term security strategy." With hackers finding new and more sophisticated ways to compromise browser security, browser makers such as Mozilla need to keep pace, said Avivah Litan, an analyst with the Gartner Inc. research firm. And as Mozilla has become more popular, security has become even more important, she said. "The attacks have really been targeted toward the 90 percent of the population using IE, but as their percentage of the browser population goes up, they have more need for [security]," she said. Mozilla's Firefox is now used by nearly 13 percent of Web surfers, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has about 86 percent marketshare, the company estimates. At Microsoft, Snyder worked with both security consulting companies and Microsoft product teams, and one researcher gave high marks to Mozilla for the hire, saying it would help the Mozilla team focus more on security. "She obviously is respected in the security area," said Stefano Zanero, chief technology officer with Secure Network SRL. "She has a lot of connections and a good vision. I'd say she's an excellent pick for a security strategist." Snyder left Microsoft in 2005 to work as a principal with Matasano Security, a consultancy based in New York that has done security testing for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. Stephen Toulouse, security program manager with Microsoft's security response center and a former co-worker of Snyder's, had high marks for the new Mozilla security chief. "Speaking personally, not as a representative of Microsoft, I think anyone who has Window working for them is lucky to have her," he said.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2004  - Martin Taylor recently marked his one-year anniversary as Microsoft Corp.&#39;s chief Linux strategist.
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The Microsoft chief executive warns Linux sellers that open-source "is not free."
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Although Microsoft has long been criticized for security flaws in its software, those days -- while not exactly over -- are receding, according to Scott Charney, corporate vice president of the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative. This is part 1 of a two-part interview.
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Are you convinced that Windows environments are less expensive to own and operate than Linux computers? Martin Taylor, the manager behind Microsoftâs anti-Linux strategy, believes the companyâs Get The
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InfoWorld - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --&#160; Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, during an appearance here Friday at the Computer History Museum, expressed no fear of Linux usurping Windows in the software industry.
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Opinion: Is Microsoft getting ready to explore intellectual property lawsuits against Linux and open-source software? If you can&#39;t beat them, sue them?
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Ben Fathi, Microsoft's vice president for the Windows core operating system, talked today about the draft APIs for PatchGuard that were announced today as well as the company's reasons for releasing them.
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Dell will expand its Linux offerings by preinstalling SuSE Linux on its servers starting later this year. By Larry Greenemeier. The same day Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer issued an E-mail to customers promoting
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Speaking at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2004 in Orlando, Florida, yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined new security initiatives, some of which would make it into a pre-Longhorn &#39;Release 2&#39; for Windows, next year.
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Microsoft&#39;s chief executive believes it&#39;s naive to suggest the software giant can eliminate all security vulnerabilities in its various
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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CEO weighs in on Linux, EU regulators, music pirates and "bad people out there in cyberspace."
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The controversy rages on. Which offers a better &quot;value proposition&quot; -- Windows or Linux? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has issued an executive email outlining case studies and analyses making the case for Windows over Open Source Linux or proprietary Unix.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "a marketing thing," according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.
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LinuxInsider: Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer argued that the true amount of shifting from Microsoft to Linux in places like Europe and Asia has been overstated in the media.