To quote Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result"
Micro$oft has been playing 3 card monty with security vulnerabilities for decades. Every year a new humdinger emerges from Redmond with the old holes patched, and a few new ones added. And with every new OS they release there is more and more "Protection" programs running in the background (Windows Security Center, and a slew of others which can be viewed by running the command services.msc) which have the overall effect of decreasing system performance in a manner significant enough to rival the effects of half the viruses out there.
The new Vista OS states its MINIMUM hardware requirements at 1 gig processor with 1.5 gigs of RAM!
That is insane for an operating system that is completely inept without installing several gigs worth of additional software. I am currently running ArchLinux with the Beryl window manager which provides FAR superior 3d effects to Vista, and it's running beautifully on a pentium2 processor with 320 megs of RAM!
Anyone who has been using computers long enough to remember Windows98 can tell you that XP was no more secure (Regardless of the M$ PR departments claims) than 98, so I must ask: If M$ is deliberately leaving security holes in their OS (Which is obvious to anyone who has ever spent time on a *nix based OS) then what exactly are they hoping to gain from the NSA? Seriously, you have a company who has consistently produced and sold incomplete operating systems that are so flawed at their core and they must be either patched to death or abandoned within a year. Anyone remember windows98 first edition? XP Service Pack2 (Try downloading that little gem on dialup...my entire operating system isn't much bigger than the service pack 2 patch)? Millenium? 2000 (Possibly the best OS to have ever come out of Redmond...unsupported after the first year)?
If Microsoft actually cared about security they would do with Vista what they should have been doing all along: Completing the operating system before selling it to a gullible public. How many people do you suppose would buy a car and then wait 6 months for Ford to finish building their hood?
I see a number of post from users who are worried that the NSA is putting things in Windows. I am more worried about the NSA running Windows! It would certainly explain the popup of a commercial airliner at the World Trade Center;)
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To quote Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result" Micro$oft has been playing 3 card monty with security vulnerabilities for decades. Every year a new humdinger emerges from Redmond with the old holes patched, and a few new ones added. And with every new OS they release there is more and more "Protection" programs running in the background (Windows Security Center, and a slew of others which can be viewed by running the command services.msc) which have the overall effect of decreasing system performance in a manner significant enough to rival the effects of half the viruses out there. The new Vista OS states its MINIMUM hardware requirements at 1 gig processor with 1.5 gigs of RAM! That is insane for an operating system that is completely inept without installing several gigs worth of additional software. I am currently running ArchLinux with the Beryl window manager which provides FAR superior 3d effects to Vista, and it's running beautifully on a pentium2 processor with 320 megs of RAM! Anyone who has been using computers long enough to remember Windows98 can tell you that XP was no more secure (Regardless of the M$ PR departments claims) than 98, so I must ask: If M$ is deliberately leaving security holes in their OS (Which is obvious to anyone who has ever spent time on a *nix based OS) then what exactly are they hoping to gain from the NSA? Seriously, you have a company who has consistently produced and sold incomplete operating systems that are so flawed at their core and they must be either patched to death or abandoned within a year. Anyone remember windows98 first edition? XP Service Pack2 (Try downloading that little gem on dialup...my entire operating system isn't much bigger than the service pack 2 patch)? Millenium? 2000 (Possibly the best OS to have ever come out of Redmond...unsupported after the first year)? If Microsoft actually cared about security they would do with Vista what they should have been doing all along: Completing the operating system before selling it to a gullible public. How many people do you suppose would buy a car and then wait 6 months for Ford to finish building their hood? I see a number of post from users who are worried that the NSA is putting things in Windows. I am more worried about the NSA running Windows! It would certainly explain the popup of a commercial airliner at the World Trade Center ;)