Vista

[OMGturt1es]

The new security features seem to mainly consist of asking me to click a little confirmation box whenever I do anything. It's quite annoying, but then you are talking to someone who has never gotten viruses or spyware on her own computer, and whose motto about cleaning other people's computers is "Never edit the registry before breakfast."

and i worked for an internet marketing company while cross zone scripting exploits were commonly used to get desktops. trust me, these annoying security features are definantly worthwhile. there were some ugly tricks out there.

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one thing i've not seen in my quick glance through this thread is the fact that vista-- apparently-- handles 64 bit and dual core processing much, much better than XP. that, in and of itself, is a pretty big change.

of course, maybe all that i've read is just urban legend, and there's been no improvement. i'm not going to pretend to have studied this all that much.

 

[Ian Osborne]

The Register said it best. Despite the sexy new party dress, it's the same old tart underneath.

 

[ZouPrime]

The Register said it best. Despite the sexy new party dress, it's the same old tart underneath.

Thanks for this non-trollish, content-full comment.

 

[Ian Osborne]

Thanks for this non-trollish, content-full comment.

And thank you for your well thought out reply which really hit the sense-of-humour zeitgeist!

 

[Wowbagger]

The only thing I wish it had was a "Are you sure?" dialog box, after you hit one of the shut down/hibernate/sleep/etc. options from the Windows menu (formerly "Start menu"). I've hit the wrong option, a couple of times, and had no chance to cancel out.

Other than that, I am happy with it. But, I can see why some people would want to stick to XP.

 

[ChristineR]

and i worked for an internet marketing company while cross zone scripting exploits were commonly used to get desktops. trust me, these annoying security features are definantly worthwhile. there were some ugly tricks out there.

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one thing i've not seen in my quick glance through this thread is the fact that vista-- apparently-- handles 64 bit and dual core processing much, much better than XP. that, in and of itself, is a pretty big change.

of course, maybe all that i've read is just urban legend, and there's been no improvement. i'm not going to pretend to have studied this all that much.

The real problem is that there are so many security holes in the basic architecture of Windows and IE. Whose idea was it to let web pages launch programs from inside IE anyhow? I really don't think that the solution is to make everybody click OK a lot. My Dad has XP and he still calls me up to ask if it's all right for him to click OK. He's a brilliant man, but not able to tell spyware from a music player.

 

[OMGturt1es]

The real problem is that there are so many security holes in the basic architecture of Windows and IE. Whose idea was it to let web pages launch programs from inside IE anyhow? I really don't think that the solution is to make everybody click OK a lot. My Dad has XP and he still calls me up to ask if it's all right for him to click OK. He's a brilliant man, but not able to tell spyware from a music player.

all large programs are going to be inherently buggy. there's just too much code for perfection.

IE wasn't designed to allow remote sites to lauch programs in the "my computer security zone". i don't understand how exactly the cross zone exploit scripts worked, but i think it had something to do with injecting java script code into memory at just the right time.

btw, it wasn't just IE. firefox was vulnerable as well. proof of concepts for firefox existed. firefox just had no real user base, so no one bothered with it. that's why linux boxes aren't filled with adware. they have security flaws as well-- buffer overflows, especially-- but they don't have enough desktops to make the work worthwhile.

by building this annoyane into the system, if any crazy cross zone exploits or buffer overflows are discovered, you'll have a chance to stop the dirty marketers from installing [rule8]ware on your computer.

 

[aerosolben]

IE wasn't designed to allow remote sites to lauch programs in the "my computer security zone". i don't understand how exactly the cross zone exploit scripts worked, but i think it had something to do with injecting java script code into memory at just the right time.

I believe both Vista and IE7 have improvements to prevent simialr problems in the future.

you'll have a chance to stop the dirty marketers from installing [rule8]ware on your computer.

Malware? Spyware? Those censors sure are getting picky...