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Monad Shell Removed From Vista
hggs writes "According to Stephen Toulouse at Microsoft, because of the possible virus threat that targets Monad the shell will not be included in Windows Vista. CNet is reporting that, even though Monad is not to be included on Vista, it will be included on a major server operating system for servers from Microsoft. Codenamed Longhorn server, that edition is due out by 2007." Update: 08/06 04:45 GMT by Z : As Mr. Toulouse states here, the submission here adds one and one and gets three. Monad hasn't been in Vista for about two months. The CNet article is clarifying a previous report stating that Monad could potentially be the first source of viruses in an OS which incorporated it. The interesting news about Monad in the server edition was obscured by the factually incorrect submission, which at first blush seemed to make sense. Mea Culpa.
Microsoft has decided to not release Windows Vista at all this year.
You could build a pretty good operating system from all the stuff that's been pulled out out Vista. Maybe Microsoft could take all that extra stuff and come out with a "Platinum" version of Vista; call it "Longhorn" or something.
Welcome to the department of redundancy department...
Expect Vista in the next Tour de France.
Quick - somebody find vulnerabilities in the WPA and DRM modules. Bonus if you find buffer overflows in the "make Windows unstable" DLLs.
We're told that yet another feature won't be present in Windows Vista by someone who seems to think that there won't ever be a virus capable of penetrating Vista's "security". These Microsoft guys crack me up!
The version number on the My Computer properties will read as different. Commence celebration.
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walked around the park.
One was WinFS and fell into a hole.
9 little windows Vista features walked around the park. The new shell slipped and fell into the pool and drowned.
8 little windows vista features walked around the park. DRM bully came and whacked them all dead.
No new Windows Vista features were left alive, so Microsoft put some new colors in and everybody bought it.
"Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919
So that leaves Vista with the following features I guess:
- Slick 'Vista' wallpaper
- DRM to protect the wallpaper
Rock on!
"but leave a buggy and insecure shell for servers where hackers can have lots of fun messing up "
Job Security!!
Your'e all thinking it, I just said it for you
I think that's pretty much what I said, but congratulations on getting modded higher than me :)
right, but stripped of the command shell, of course...
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
I wish you and your rational-thinking ilk would get the hell off slashdot. You're ruining all our M$ bashing and hot-buttoned emotionalism!
I think I speak for the majority of slashdot when I say we are here to be told what to think, not to think for ourselves.
Ahhh, a world where Microsoft makes vacuum cleaners.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
But now Windows seems less and less likely to have Monad.
What was MS thinking? Windows and monads just don't mix.
No wait...
apt-get remove monad
Yep, that felt better
I'm glad somebody brought this up. Truth is, not even Microsoft can achieve 100% bad, I believe they only claim to be five 9's bad... which is pretty good when it comes to being bad.
If people keep finding vulnerabilities in "Vista" before it's released, then maybe we can get Microsoft to take Explorer out of the release :-P