Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:20:14 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
>>>| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
>>>| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
>>>| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
>>>| e-mail was laden with a virus.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
>>>
>>
>> This embarrassing news just keeps coming.
>
> It is kind of interesting, isn't it?
>
> Vista is here! -- Four years late.
> Vista is secure! -- But needs AV apps and other hand-holding.
> We have OneCare! -- That's insecure itself.
> But it protects you! -- Worse than any other such tool.
>
> Is there *any* part of Vista they got right? For the users, I mean;
> whether they got the DRM right is something the media houses might care
> about, but not really something I suspect most users really want.
>
As you say, there doesn't seem to be a single reason for using Vista. I
think that the world has also noticed this important fact. This was an
inevitability, though, as Windows hasn't really introduced any good
features apart from drag'n'drop that I can bring to mind. It's also
done many things very badly. The appalling cli support is a cracking
example of how *not* to do things, a single script can save a thousand
clicks.
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