COMPUTER security experts have poured scorn on Bill Gates’s claim that
breaking up Microsoft will make it harder to fight future viruses such as last
week’s Love Bug. What’s needed, say the experts, is a more diverse range of
software on people’s computers, not a uniform, monopolistic one.
Writing in this week’s Time magazine, Gates argues that products
will be less safe if applications such as the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program
had to be developed separately from its operating system. “Provisions like these
would kill innovation in the Operating System,” Gates wrote. “Updates to Windows
and Office technologies that could,…
