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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!
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.
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
... and when his son becomes thirteen he will actually connect the computer to the network. ;)
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