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Story: Windows 7 — as good as it gets

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I would say the same thing to you... please provide details of WHY Vista is supposedly "more secure" than XP? Just because Ballmer says it is? Just because Microsoft's propaganda machine says it is? Do the statistics on number and severity of patches for Vista compared to XP support this? I would claim just the opposite, many of the changes made in Vista actually make it significantly LESS secure than XP. As an example, I would offer the ridiculous User Access Control (UAC) fiasco. The unexpected appearance of windows, asking questions which the average user has no understanding of, and requesting "permission" to continue, is a sure way to condition people to simply click "Yes"/"OK"/"Continue" no matter what the situation or question actually is. The only "advantage" I can see to this is that Microsoft can subsequently claim that whatever problems occur were the user's own fault, because he/she "agreed" to let it continue. Good security? No. Good passing-the-buck? Yes. Typical Microsoft? Yes.

jw 14/5/2009

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