Just noticed the following:
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061109ozzievista/index.html
Ozzie: Vista fulfills fundamental OS role
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| Vista, the next version of Windows' client-side operating system,
| is designed to fulfill the fundamental role of an operating system
| today: provide users with a safe environment when they are on
| the Web, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie
| said Wednesday.
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Sounds just like Linux, but let's carry on.
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| "It's software and it will have flaws," Ozzie cautioned. But Vista
| has been built from the ground up to be secure "by design," he said
| in a presentation in which he answered questions from conference
| chair John Battelle and from attendees.
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Huh??? "Secure by design"? "From the ground up"?? Vista is just XP/Server
2003 codebase with some stuff strapped onto it. It was /NOT/ built from the
ground up. Singularity is being built from the ground up and it's just some
small-scale proof-of-concept research. Longhorn was scraped.
Windows codebase is /NOT/ secure by design. Multiple users, privileges and
networking (among other basic components) are 'merely' hacks applied to that
'PC on every desk' from the 80's (Windows 1.0).
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061109ozzievista/index.html
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