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Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus
LadyDarth writes "During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed."
Average user won't need Vista.
Who plans on bookmarking this story so they can laugh heartily at it again in a year?
Game! - Where the stick is mightier than the sword!
no, stop, you're killing me, ahhahahahahahhahahhahahhahahhahhahhha
i've been trying it out, and vista works for me, naked on the internet, without a single problem. in fact i would go so far as to say that V1AGRA HOOD1A GR0W Y0UR PEN1S L0W M0RTGAGE RATES L0SE WE1GHT MEET BARELY LEGAL TEENS SEE HARDC0RE SHEMALE ACTION
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
That only took... what... 15-odd years. Seeing will be believing.
as I remember it was something like "you can't possibly write a virus for this operating system". Go get em boys.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Sounds a bit like some unsinkable ship.
See, if you don't run av, then when you get infected, you'll have to reload vi$ta (which they only let you do once). Then, you'll have to buy another copy of said OS.
Brilliant marketing $cheme
You'll need to start worrying when he turns 12 or 13. ;)
rimcrazy
Yea..........and 640K will be plenty of memory..........
And the world will only need 4 computers...................
And no one would ever need a computer at home..............
Sheesh......where do they come up with this stuff?
A new one:
We will never have more than 16777215 comments.............
liqbase
What he actually meant to say was that it won't need any antivirus...for the first 10 minutes. That's almost a two-fold increase from XP!
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
... doesn't need to be walked if you don't mind it using your house as a toilet.
That is all.
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
did I mention how
oh wait, this is
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
... and when his son becomes thirteen he will actually connect the computer to the network. ;)
This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
don't visit porn sites or use P2P
Then what do you use the internet for?
You've stumbled across their secret plan. Vista won't run programs. 99.9% of Windows problems have been traced to 'users' running 'programs'.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain