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Story: Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP

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Posted by: cabala (Thursday 22 March 2007, 11:01 AM)

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it is silly to pop up a window in the way UAC does.

People buying a new pc will want to install their existing hardware and software.
Not only will UAC annoy them, they shall most likely find out that vista has no built-in driver library for their peripherals.

The likely result is a massive cry for free downgrades and a move to open source

Further, µsoft is angering their valued partners and drop-in/plug-in vendors by taking over the niche markets and excluding these vendors' products from vista

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