Vista Security — Too Little Too Late

Thomas Greene of The Register has a fairly comprehensive review of Vista and IE7 user security measures. The verdict is: better but not adequate, and mostly an attempt to shift blame onto the user when things go wrong. From the review: "[Vista is] a slightly more secure version than XP SP2. There are good features, and there are good ideas, but they've been implemented badly. The old problems never go away: too many networking services enabled by default; too many owners running their boxes as admins and downloading every bit of malware they can get their hands on."

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Crazy Article.

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[article is not] fair and balanced.

That depends on your perspective. If you are Bill Gates, or drugged or both, you might think it's not fair M$ is blamed for all the M$ born malware that threatens the internet and every machine on it. If you are anyone else, you're dumbfounded the authors bothered to run Vista at all. It's funny how people keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. It's not surprising M$ results make people angry, but it is surprising people keep listening to them and giving their software a fair chance to fall on it's face.

The details in the article are pretty irrefutable. Eris's journal entry is not a bad summary if you don't have time to read further than the second paragraph.