[LINK] Schneier on Storm Worm

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Avi Miller wrote:

> On 06/10/2007, at 12:01 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
>
>> Why does a package like "Parallels desktop" or "Wine" work so well
>> even though it's not Windows
>
> For example, you can't get Microsoft Access 
> to run under WINE/CrossOver, but the rest of Office seems to do OK.

That is because MS obfsuscates their API to external developers,
leaving the codebase internals well hidden inside several 
layers of code only visible to the MS teams.   So let's posit
that MS already has a version of WINE, that they know all the 
Windows secrets to, that allows it to be a perfectly MSW emulator.

So they should be able to slap that on top of any OS they like,
with a bit of effort?     They are Microsoft, after all <snigger>...


rachel

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