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...individual paper or day is going to get me down," she says. "I'm very realistic about my ability to excel...
...this is the most damaging and the most widespread virus outbreak ever." Symantec's Moritz is more cautious, conceding that it is No. 1 in numbers and rate of spread, but for sheer destructiveness he prefers last year's Explore.Zip, an especially vindictive virus designed to destroy Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files...
Laroux arrives as an unassuming Microsoft Excel file known as a macro. Ethan, Marker, Class and Footer hide inside Microsoft Word macros. Happy, Form and Chernobyl work on Windows, while big-league heavies like Explore.zip (not to mention year 2000 contenders Kakworm, Bubbleboy and, of course, ILoveYou) head straight for Microsoft Outlook Express...
Security experts have long warned that Microsoft software is so widely used and so genetically interconnected that it qualifies as a monoculture--that is, the sort of homogeneous ecosystem that makes as little sense in the business world as it does in the biological. Using Word, Excel and Outlook exclusively on Windows machines in a company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users...
...biodiversity was not lost on the trustbusters at the Justice Department. Their legal bid to break Microsoft in two is intended to promote precisely such healthy genetics. The most overused example of what would happen if the Windows half of Microsoft were wrenched from the half that produces Word, Excel and Outlook is that the latter would start churning out versions of its products for rival operating system Linux. Call it enforced crossbreeding...