http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2006/05/23/microsoft-considers-taking-admin-rights-from-employees/ Open Source > Linux > LQ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:31:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2006/05/23/microsoft-considers-taking-admin-rights-from-employees/#comment-245 Anonymous Tue, 23 May 2006 17:18:35 +0000 http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2006/05/23/microsoft-considers-taking-admin-rights-from-employees/#comment-245 And I made the "dogfood" comments before I read the article!! ESP or what? And I made the “dogfood” comments before I read the article!! ESP or what?

]]> http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2006/05/23/microsoft-considers-taking-admin-rights-from-employees/#comment-244 Anonymous Tue, 23 May 2006 17:11:54 +0000 http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2006/05/23/microsoft-considers-taking-admin-rights-from-employees/#comment-244 Very ironic :) I think, though, that this comes under "eating their own dogfood" - if they give everyone admin rights they can say "see, we believe in our security model so much that all our employees are admins". The problem with that is that, in the IT industry, we forget that not everyone is techie minded. I wonder how many times they had to reinstall machines because of Gator or other rubbish software? Now that Microsoft are becoming more security focused, eating their own dogfood means taking away those rights. Very ironic I think, though, that this comes under “eating their own dogfood” - if they give everyone admin rights they can say “see, we believe in our security model so much that all our employees are admins”. The problem with that is that, in the IT industry, we forget that not everyone is techie minded. I wonder how many times they had to reinstall machines because of Gator or other rubbish software?
Now that Microsoft are becoming more security focused, eating their own dogfood means taking away those rights.

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