I had to reinstall windows every 2-3 months but the Ubuntu installation is already 6 months old. Unreliable isn't it?
What exactly did you do to Windows to force a re-install every 2-3 months? I know that a badly maintained copy of Windows may need to be re-installed, but that seems excessive!
So what did Microsoft do? What they always do, they changed the API and then didn't tell anyone. So now all kinds of MAPI complient applications started breaking, well except theirs of course, since they had all the documentation and the rest of the word didn't.
Do you have any examples of applications that suddenly stopped working or of any changes that were made to the API?
I am mainly interested because all the MAPI code I have written in the past still functions correctly.
I mean that with capped 960x540 media resolution and the rest of the DRM crap in Vista, MS has created an OS that will genuinely make a lot of people want to look for an alternative superior good that does not lock the user into DRM hell. Exactly what alternative does MS have in this respect? As far as I am aware Microsoft had two options. They either implemented a trusted path system to allow certain copy protected HD content (in particular HD-DVDs) to play or they didn't allow the copy protected content.
This same DRM will be built into standalone HD-DVD players, TVs and other playback devices. If any other OS provider wants to be able to play this content they will have to jump through the same hoops Microsoft did.
I am not saying I agree that this sort of DRM is a good thing, but I think that holding Microsoft to blame is just plain daft.
On the other hand, the "homograph" attack (Fig 5) where the attacker spawns a window with all the adorners hidden and provides their own copies of the URL field, etc... is already addressed in Safari which uses the window title bar itself to display the "lock icon". If the indicator is in a part of the "chrome" where the content can never be, it's much harder to spoof... (it's surprising that the article doesn't suggest such an approach as a solution to this). Isn't a homograph attack where the URL is visually similar to the legitimate site (such as www.paypa1.com instead of www.paypal.com). In this case, the problem is not the fact that the "lock icon" or any of the other extended validation is part of the "chrome", but that the font used to render the URL can also be used to render visually similar URLs.
As far as I am aware, with IE7, an address bar (and the SSL information) is always shown on popup windows negating the attack you described.
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What exactly did you do to Windows to force a re-install every 2-3 months? I know that a badly maintained copy of Windows may need to be re-installed, but that seems excessive!
Do you have any examples of applications that suddenly stopped working or of any changes that were made to the API?
I am mainly interested because all the MAPI code I have written in the past still functions correctly.
This same DRM will be built into standalone HD-DVD players, TVs and other playback devices. If any other OS provider wants to be able to play this content they will have to jump through the same hoops Microsoft did.
I am not saying I agree that this sort of DRM is a good thing, but I think that holding Microsoft to blame is just plain daft.