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More Headaches from Vista Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bottle-of-pain-medication-shipped-with-every-sale dept.

Michael Cooney writes to tell us Windows Vista may have some serious headaches in store for corporate users with third-party authentication systems like VPNs. From the article: "ISVs say rewriting their code for the new architecture will produce headaches that will extend to their customers that have deployed strong authentication such as biometrics or tokens, enterprise single sign-on and a number of other systems integrated with the Windows authentication architecture."

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  1. Haha by Ecko7889 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hasta la Vista security.

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  2. Re:Win-Win by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny
    don't think Bridgestone can ask Ferrari to slow its F1 cars down because Bridgestone tyres cannot perform at high speed.

    Wait a minute! Did you just compare Windows Vista with Ferrari?

  3. In other news ... by l2718 · · Score: 1, Funny

    It has recently been determined that new versions of operating systems are not always 100% backward-compatible.

  4. In other news... by Handover+Phist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft is leveraging its flagship operating system to corner the market on aspirin...

  5. Re:Another day, another microsoft problem by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Funny

    Excuse me, but isn't "microsoft problem" a redundant phrase?

  6. Third Party Software?? by highspl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Corporation (in voice of Smithers): But if you do that, then no 3rd party software will work, and we will be forced to use MS.

    Bill (in voice of Mr. Burns): excellent./p?

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  7. Re:At this point... by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have the feeling that at this point the managers in Redmond care less about security and more about actually _shipping_ the product.

    To maintain backwards compatability with other Windows versions, of course... ;-)

  8. Re:Win-Win by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait a minute! Did you just compare Windows Vista with Ferrari?

    It's expensive to own, expensive to fix, and makes you curse like an italian.

    Your point is ???

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  9. Re:At this point... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Vista Security - I sincerely hope that's not going to become another famous oxymoron like previous Windows releases."

    Hey, you hit on another oxymoron (at least with regards to Vista) - "Windows release".

    Duck and cover, duck and cover...

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  10. Re:I'm not a Ub3r-geek, but how is this newsworthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You have a five digit /.-id. If you are not an uber geek, then no one is.

  11. Re:At this point... by ftoomch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aaah! You're talking about the new Vista Augmented GINA. Nice acronym.