Windows 2000: Microsoft's Most Successful Failure

Over at SecurityFocus, Mark Burnett wrote an EXCELLENT article on "Microsoft's Most Successful Failure". Quite frankly, I wish I would have written this. So many things ring true to me.

You have to read Mark's article. Here is a teaser of what you can expect:

I think that Windows 2000 has probably been one of Microsoft's greatest sources of bad press in the entire history of the company. But it also defined the company into what it is today. Windows 2000 was meant to be their most secure operating system ever but it turned out to be an absolute security disaster. Somehow Microsoft managed to not only recover from that disaster but also to turn security into one of their greater assets. It turns out, then, that Windows 2000 was their most successful failure so far.

The rest of the article shows how Microsoft has been turning around since then. Good article Mark!