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Subject: Re: Microsoft plans to offer a firewall
From: David Harvey-George <david @ threewiz . demon . co . uk>
Organization: Kimble Consultancy Services Ltd
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:52:55 +0100
To: Thomas Leitner <tom @ finwds01 . tu-graz . ac . at>
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
References: <Pine . OSF . 3 . 96 . 970701082054 . 29421A-100000 @ finwal01 . tu-graz . ac . at>

Thomas Leitner wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Vin McLellan wrote:
> 
> > Microsoft crowds firewall space

> >                 Though Microsoft (MSFT) says it doesn't plan to
> >                 compete with firewall vendors, its plans to add
> >                 firewall security features to the next version of its
> >                 Proxy Server 
> 
> And they think that anybody would trust them and their firewall,
> given the numerous holes in their TCP/IP stack which were revealed in the
> last couple of month?

No, but a lot of folks only hear the marketing hype from M$

David

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