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Significant progress has been made in 2003 and the company has made a strong commitment to improve the security situation in 2004. "Microsoft knows exactly what it needs to do to improve the security of its products. The main challenge is one of discipline"enforcing a consistent set of patch technologies and procedures across traditionally independent product groups," said Michael Cherry, Lead Analyst, Operating Systems at Directions on Microsoft

Microsoft clearly has no idea. The biggest problems are far simpler. Enable the damn firewall by default. Ship Outlook (etc) with all the scripting stuff off by default. Stop trying to have mondo fixes - do the simplest things first.