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Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the steadfastly-bulletproof dept.

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."

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  1. I havent Laughed so HARD in Years by skelator2821 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Hahahahahahahahahahaahaahahaahahahahahahahahahahah ahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahah.. Whew Ohh now my stomach hurts...

  2. Re:Also reported by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OTOH, whether you like it or not, XP in 2006 can run software made in 1995 without any problems whatsoever. All this means that businesses can get more mileage from their custom solutions and hence the market share disparity...

    I beg to differ. Windows XP happens to run things like Microsoft Word 6 and FrameMaker 5 - both of which are Windows 3.1 apps. I found that I can even run the Windows file manager from Windows 2 and 3 on XP just fine.

    Also when I worked at an accounting support company a lot of the poorly written apps I had to support were Windows 3.1 based and were running just fine on XP and 2000.