Posted on 08/08/2008 9:25:43 AM PDT by Clint Williams
scribbles89 sends in a story that originally ran in SearchSecurity; it sounds like it could be a game-changer. "While this may seem like any standard security hole, other researchers say that the work is a major breakthrough and there is very little that Microsoft can do to fix the problems. These attacks work differently than other security exploits, as they aren't based on any new Windows vulnerabilities, but instead take advantage of the way Microsoft chose to guard Vista's fundamental architecture. According to Dino Dai Zovi..., 'the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over.'"
I hate to have to do all of that before I can get a brand new computer to run right though.
One of the people who told me it has problems is this guy I know who is a computer expert and he goes all over the world setting up these systems etc. And he said that Service Pack 1 fixed about only half of the issues, mostly the speed.
I’m glad it works well for you, I know it has some good features if it is working correctly.
Does anyone know when Windows 7 is supposed to be released?
I dunno. I use Vista and Firefox. Haven’t used IE in ages. Do I have a problem?
“Vista is XPs, ME”
A number of years ago a friend asked me to help her choose her first computer. So ME was what Dell was selling at the time and I told her to buy one of those. It was like a haunted piece of equipment doing all kinds of things you could never explain. She finally just scrapped it because by the time she gave up on it, it was out of warranty. I’m lucky she still talks to me.
unfortunatly I don’t work with Oracle.
However you have to consider the broad spectrum of companies. Given the reports here, even with its flaws it seems Vista has better memory features with improve performance.
The bottom line for microsoft is that they have EARNED the reputation of putting out a product which has a “generation skipping” upgrade. IOW, version 1, version skip, version 3, version skip, version 5, etc...
Hmm. I open my Documents folder that is on my desktop, and it literally takes 30 secs to open up just to list the contents.
I have a Dell D830 with a Core2Duo and 4G of RAM.
Doesn't feel like better performance.
But adds in enough cruft to make it an unappealing upgrade path. UAC, DRM, poor driver support, etc. And it's more restrictive than ever. If you want AD support, you give up multimedia. Unless you want to shell out for Ultimate.
It's simply not "good enough" to get people to jump from XP.
The bottom line for microsoft is that they have EARNED the reputation of putting out a product which has a “generation skipping” upgrade.
And that's been when there really hasn't been any other options. The EeePC is the fastest growing segment of the computer market and the majority of those machines ship with Linux.
Microsoft has never had to deal with competition before. It will be very interesting to watch what happens.
Microsoft says January 2010.
Based on their past vaporware announcements you can expect to see it sometime in 2012.
LOL!!
Nope — True blonde.
Aye, there's the rub.
Please explain to me why I need to buy more hardware for today's OS just to do the same tasks that I did yesterday.
The people I know who complain the most about Vista are the same people who call customer service because they can't connect to the Internet only to discover that they need an account with an internet service provider.
And the people that have been working with computers since 1979. And have worked on big iron, had an Internet account in 1993, set up a home network in 1994, have worked for several ISPs, have sysadmined systems with tens of thousands of users and have worked on security teams with the big telcos.
Oh wait. That's me.
That’s what I mean. XP is as vulnerable as Vista.
Nope. Just MS Vista 64-bit Ultimate. No extras.
I'm sorry. I misunderstood.
Then again, it's all Windows to me.
Operating systems other than Windows are not likely to be affected.
Microsoft goes to great lengths to ensure their latest offering is bug-for-bug compatible with their old clunkers. And even then they sometimes manage to fail at even that.
Never mind that question about tech support, I just went to your “about” page.
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