The head of Microsoft Australia has labelled security “the biggest threat to the growth of our company and our industry overall” amid a raft of indications the software heavyweight is struggling to stay on top of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Steve Vamos told attendees at an Australian Information Industry Association event in Adelaide yesterday the security issue was “essentially …<\/p>\n
Vamos’ blunt comments come as Microsoft struggles to deal with a raft of flaws uncovered in its flagship Web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), attempts by malicious code writers to disrupt its monthly patching cycle and security researchers’ preparedness to disclose vulnerabilities to all community members at the same time rather than give the vendor some lead time to devise a fix before going public. The Microsoft Australia boss also launched an assault on the software heavyweight’s other bugbear of the moment, competition from Linux and open source solutions.<\/p>\n
The use of open source software by government agencies was very much at the forefront of the recent federal election campaign, with all major political parties detailing publicly their policy stance on the issue. The federal government in late August released a guide saying it was preparing a range of tools to help agencies evaluate emerging open source solutions against more familiar proprietary software “on an informed basis”.<\/p>\n
“…my view is very straightforward…that whatever alternatives our customers have, be they open source or not, if they are better value for money and better fit for purpose than what Microsoft have, then we’ve got a problem.” Vamos said he viewed the shift to the use of software as a service as “a much bigger movement” than the open source community. The Microsoft boss also said in the corporate arena, rather than just having the chief information officer pushing the IT agenda in the top team, every member of that team had to sign up to it.<\/p>\n
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