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1. Comment - MS Won't Commit to Vista in January

   (Jul 29, 2006 - 3:30 PM)

   Your 3-year-old doesn't have investors, and doesn't have partners whose products also depend on your product.

2. Comment - Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows

   (Jun 12, 2006 - 4:08 PM)

   I think it's a bit of both.
   
   I'm a bit wrong, but the article also isn't as clear as it could be. It's not true that, for every 10 PCs scanned, 6 will have a backdoor trojan ("Malicious bots are becoming quite common, with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected").
   
   It's true that, of all of the PCs ever scanned, at some point in time, 6 out of 10 have had a backdoor trojan.
   
   Regardless, I agree that it's a big number.

3. Comment - Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows

   (Jun 12, 2006 - 2:32 PM)

   The Microsoft report says that, on average, 1 piece of malware is removed from every 311 PCs scanned: "On average, the tool removes at least one instance of malware from every 311 computers it runs on."
   
   How does that become (in your article), "with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected [with a malicious bot]"?
   
   It sounds like 1 out of 311 PCs are infected to me :) The "6 out of 10" figure was, I assume, derived from the statement that 62% of infected PCs are infected with a backdoor trojan. So, that's 62% of 1/311, which is 0.2% of PCs scanned, or 0.02 out of 10.
   
   That's a big error!