I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code.

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.