January 28th, 2006
Security Worked in the Election; Will It Work for Vista?
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Security worked in the Presidential election. Now it looks like this will be the selling point, or at least one of them, for Windows Vista.
“Safety and security is the overriding feature that most people will want to have Windows Vista for,” the co-president of Microsoft’s platform, products and services division (Jim Allchin) said in an interview with CNET News.com. “Even if they are not into home entertainment or in any of the specialty areas, they are just going to feel safer and more secure by using it.” Source: News.com
We Say: So, based on the number of vulnerabilities we usually see in Windows, plus the fact that Vista beta has already been patched for a security vulnerability, am I going to believe that Vista will be inherently safer than XP? I understand that the default mode will likely be “protected administrator”, but since you will require “full administrator” mode to install an app, I don’t see that setting staying that way for long. And I don’t think Vista will be a panacea for our security woes.
XP will continue to be supported, and it’s not like Microsoft will open its arms and say, “Come and infect our XP systems”, so I’m probably not going to upgrade and only get Vista with a new PC.
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Security Worked in the Election; Will It Work for Vista?
Security worked in the Presidential election. Now it looks like this will be the selling point, or at least one of them, for Windows Vista. Read More on Windows Vista and Selling Points Here…
January 28th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
David Johnston says:
I think the question should be just how vulnerable will Vista be compared to other OS’s. There’s no doubt in my mind that Vista will have security holes, but as everyone knows MacOS and Unix/Linux also have security holes that they’ve patched. Needing to input your password to install software is actually one of the things that makes OS X, etc. so “secure”. It prevents programs from automatically installing themselves. Since Vista will feature this, I think it will be more secure than XP in that regard. Of course, it’s not like Windows XP is that insecure if you sit behind a router with a firewall, disable unnecessary services (especially network services), user Firefox or Opera, and of course use your common sense.
January 28th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
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August 7th, 2006 at 10:24 am