Finally they focus on something important instead of dicking around with stupid GUIs.
I do not believe it. The test version has you being recorded. I do not think Microsoft will give up the NSA version.
The only way any OS Windows will ever be even close to secure is if Microsoft quits automatically giving superuser privilege to ALL user accounts by default, and instead making all new installation instances of Windows OS default to having an Admin account with superuser privilege and one or more limited-privilege accounts for the user(s) to do their daily work.
In addition, by default, NO .exe or .dll or other binary program should be executable in the context of any limited-privilege account, meaning that all binary software MUST first be installed from a superuser account for the system to use as a whole. It will also most likely be necessary to prevent even non-binary programs from running in the user-context without explicitly granting them permission.
That would solve about 99.999% of the malware problems and until that is done everything else is just adding additional ineffective security band-aids on top of a whole pile of other, older, ineffective security band-aids.
Furthermore, my experience with those piles of security band-aids is that malware finds a way around them every time, and then those “security” band-aids turn into major impediments for removing the malware. In other words, the security measures don’t block the malware, but does block the sys admin efforts.
What happened to version 9?
When I worked there as a contractor not too many years ago they were yapping about making windows more secure. Wished I had saved the propaganda posters. Like most things at MS its more marketing and hype than actual working product. I really dont know why theyre taking security on yet again. Third parties do a much better job....until MS buys them out.
If I had to guess, somewhere in all this users will have to connect to Microsoft’s servers, give Microsoft their credit card details and be pushed to buy apps from Microsoft.
Bring back Windows XP, or at least rebrand it as a budget OS for those who don’t want the bells and whistles. XP was the greatest OS of all time. (Muhammad Ali voice) - “OF ALL TIME!”
Don’t worry. The next version of Windows, Windows 15 will correct that. Mostly. Somewhat.
Well, its only taken them 35 years
The NSA will not allow it.
Is Window 10 being marketed for home use as well? All that security mumbo-jumbo sounds too complicated for the average person to use, much less to configure. Will an on-site IT person be included with every purchase?
Looks like they’re going at it from the wrong side. Windows doesn’t need more front end security with more fancy ways to log in. It needs to separate administrator from root.
Has it been tested by a gaggle of hackurz?
This adds outrage to the already pathetic state of affairs. They can’t secure our passwords, or our personal machines in our homes and offices, but now they will insist on our biometric data and make it insecure as well.
A simple fact that remains is that it would be quite easy for MS to secure our machines. They choose not to.