New Microsoft program: 'You patch, we pay'

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Under a new program, Microsoft is paying for security assessments of its customers' networks to help improve policies in areas such as software patch management and assuage fears about the security risks posed by Microsoft products.

[blockquote]Microsoft has contacted around 75 percent of the 200 enterprise customers in the district that includes Atlanta regarding the program and the "vast majority," more than 90 percent of those companies, have signed up for the free service. The company hopes to contact all its enterprise customers by the end of its fiscal year in June 2004, he said. [/blockquote]
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Thrax

Oh for ****'s sake.

Now Microsoft has to pay system administrators to do the job they're already getting paid to do?

Ridiculous.

RWB

I have no problem with that.

EyesOnly

I do but then again i'm not an admin.

Straight_Man

Thrax wrote:

Oh for ****'s sake.

Now Microsoft has to pay system administrators to do the job they're already getting paid to do?

Ridiculous.

Not quite-- customers are demanding that Microsoft make a manageable patching strategy that leaves them with secure servers WITHOUT more holes in them than swiss cheese, AND they are saying to Microsoft, "YOU broke it, YOU fix it."

John D.-- Who also says to Thrax, read Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love," AND "Stranger In a Strange Land," ANDTHEN say you hate Grok.... Or Grokking.... Preliminary Reference: http://www.wegrokit.com/

Thrax

I've already read both of those books, and am generally well-versed in Heinlein's work.

That said, I still hate the word grok. And I still find it equally ridiculous that Microsoft is paying for the security audits that the sysadmins should be doing themselves. It's what they get paid for.