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Preventing Another Vista-like Release With Windows 7
CRE writes "An article at the OS News site details how Microsoft could best avoid Windows 7 becoming another Vista-esque release. The author advises Microsoft to basically split Windows in two. Windows 7 would be a new operating system based on the proven Windows NT kernel, but with a completely new user interface, with backwards compatibility provided by VMs. In addition, to please business customers and other people concerned with backwards compatibility, Microsoft should create 'Windows Legacy', basically the current Windows, which will receive only security and bug fixes. Relatedly, APCMag is reporting that Microsoft has moved Julie Larson-Green (the driving force behind Office 2007's Ribbon UI) over to work on Windows 7's interface."
microsoft needs to accept the fact that they can not build a decently secure & stable OS and what microsoft should do is take a clue from Apple, use a core of some flavor of BSD and build on top of that...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
"But what makes you think Windows is less stable and less secure than *Nix or OSX?" - by dc29A (636871) * on Tuesday July 24, @11:08AM (#19969905)
/. (slashdot) & other *NIX oriented sites, for starters:
Absolutely NOTHING man, & I am in UTTER 110% AGREEMENT with you here (& see WHY you did not get modded down, as is USUALLY the case when someone points out things that the *NIX crowd says about "*NIX security > Windows Security" etc. et al)...
Why?
Well, these 15 URL's, from here @
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240571&cid= 19630923
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240283&cid=196 31141
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240501&c id=19630965
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=241957&cid= 19662703
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=241913&cid= 19662485
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238993&cid =19578849
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=243071&cid= 19690705
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=243071&cid= 19691091
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=240283&cid=196 22485
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=244821&cid= 19736881
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=245695&cid= 19761821
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=246583&c id=19779437
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=252367&c id=19946243
http://linux.sys-con.com/read/382946_f.htm
Where I outright challenged ANY *NIX type & their users to exceed this score on "THE CENTER FOR INTERNET SECURITY"'s CIS Tool 1.x multi-platform test (which actually HELPS a user secure their system online to a LARGE extent) here @ SLASHDOT numerous times (14) & a LINUX oriented site (where BSD was suggested in lieu of Linux for security no less, 1 time)...
And, to date? Either NO TAKERS to my challenge, OR outright evasions (spinmaster b.s. that I easily disproved, in other words, for those that tried to "downplay" the use of this test, which IS multi-platform & tests analogs that exist between *NIX variants & Windows, such as init files vs. registries etc.).
All this year in fact?
Not a single *NIX person challenged exceeded the score I was able to obtain on Windows Server 2003 SP #2 fully hotfix patched, though each stated something to the effect of:
"Windows IS LESS SECURE THAN (insert *NIX variant here)"
AFTER seeing those (if you wish, it is always the SAME result in them, with *NIX folks raving that Windows is less secure than Windows NT-based OS (even after both are hardened for security))...
PROOF?
See this screenshot, first:
http://i