Vista Security
Vista, not improving security?
Longtime reader and correspondent Phil Daley, a developer for a software vendor, dropped me a line saying he's three weeks into a four-week project to evaluate one of his company's products on Windows Vista. The goal is to identify any problems and recommend changes and fixes.
Daley tells me his company has a dozen install issues, but they're somebody else's problem. On the other hand, he has just found one command (out of 140) that crashes in Vista but not in XP.
Of course Microsoft is overengineering security in Vista. It has been beaten up so badly over the hundreds of security issues in the existing versions of Windows that it had no choice; it had to build Vista like a hardened nuclear bunker with blast-proof doors surrounded by fences with really picky guards checking your credentials.
Read the article HERE.
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Microsoft Makes Security Blunder with Vista
There will always be people who just think it's cool to run the next version of "Product X" before everyone else. They feel like they're an insider, part of a clique and see themselves as being able to help shape the destiny of that product. Fine, as long as you realize the fire you're playing with. If you've nothing to lose, then why not? But if you're concerned about what you've got on the box or what might attack it, then you've really got to ask yourself if that "coolness" is really worth it.
Read the article HERE.
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Microsoft bets big on Vista security
Microsoft's Vista developers can't catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security researchers that old code in Windows was creating security risks, the software giant decided to rewrite key parts of the operating system.
The result? Last month, Symantec published a report suggesting all of this new code will introduce new security problems.
Read the article HERE.
Longtime reader and correspondent Phil Daley, a developer for a software vendor, dropped me a line saying he's three weeks into a four-week project to evaluate one of his company's products on Windows Vista. The goal is to identify any problems and recommend changes and fixes.
Daley tells me his company has a dozen install issues, but they're somebody else's problem. On the other hand, he has just found one command (out of 140) that crashes in Vista but not in XP.
Of course Microsoft is overengineering security in Vista. It has been beaten up so badly over the hundreds of security issues in the existing versions of Windows that it had no choice; it had to build Vista like a hardened nuclear bunker with blast-proof doors surrounded by fences with really picky guards checking your credentials.
Read the article HERE.
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Microsoft Makes Security Blunder with Vista
There will always be people who just think it's cool to run the next version of "Product X" before everyone else. They feel like they're an insider, part of a clique and see themselves as being able to help shape the destiny of that product. Fine, as long as you realize the fire you're playing with. If you've nothing to lose, then why not? But if you're concerned about what you've got on the box or what might attack it, then you've really got to ask yourself if that "coolness" is really worth it.
Read the article HERE.
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Microsoft bets big on Vista security
Microsoft's Vista developers can't catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security researchers that old code in Windows was creating security risks, the software giant decided to rewrite key parts of the operating system.
The result? Last month, Symantec published a report suggesting all of this new code will introduce new security problems.
Read the article HERE.
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