More Headaches from Vista Security

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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Another day, another microsoft problem

[unity100]

Will wonders never cease

Re:Another day, another microsoft problem

[Anonymous Coward]

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Problem Solved

[__aalnoi707]

"Not only the vendors, but the customers that have [authentication systems] already deployed are going to go through a lot of pain," says one ISV who asked not to be named. "We knew there were going to be changes, but we didn't know there would be wholesale changes."

Dont use windows use Linux problem solved

MOD -1 redundant

[Anonymous Coward]

Everybody knows that decent sized corporates will be running linux before MSFT ship Vista. Mom and pop aren't affected by this, fortunate for MS that they can continue to use an overpriced toy OS.