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After Vista flop, Indian CIOs not open to new Windows
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| Microsoft, the worldâs largest software maker, may be throwing parties for
| potential customers to test its Windows 7 operating system to be launched in
| October, but many chief information officers (CIOs) are not joining the party
| yet.
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| Reliance Communications, Asian Paints, Essar Group and some other companies will
| wait to see how efficient the new product of Microsoft is before shifting to it,
| after the Vista failed to deliver on the promise of a faster and sleeker
| operating system.
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| âIâm in no hurry to rip and replace my existing OS (operating system),ââ said
| Manish Choksi, chief information officer (CIO) at Asian Paints which has 2,500
| desktops and about 100 servers.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Indian-CIOs-not-open-to-new-Windows/articleshow/5007253.cms
Vista 7 is Vista with a poor ripoff of KDE4 and a lot of marketing/bribes.
Recent:
Windows 7 is 'insecure', warns F-Secure
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| The new operating system's Windows Explorer file manager still misleads users
| about the true extension of a file, said Patrik Runald, chief research
| advisor at Helsinki-based F-Secure.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=14648
Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw
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| For example, malicious code writers could name a 'virus.exe' file
| as 'virus.txt.exe' or 'virus.jpg.exe', he said. Windows Explorer would then
| hide the .exe part of the filename, meaning that the user would only
| see 'virus.txt' or 'virus.jpg'. Additionally, virus writers would change the
| icon displayed with the file in Windows Explorer so it looked like the icon
| of a text file or an image. Users might then click on the disguised file.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39648558,00.htm
Win7 can still be exploited by hackers
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| "People typically look at the icon to know what the file is," Runald told
| ComputerWorldUK. "If it looks like a Word doc or a PDF file, there's an
| implicit trust in it, and users are more likely to click on those files, even
| if they are actually an executable."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137041/win7-exploited-hackers
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