Comments on: Vista more insecure than XP

By: backbone

backbone — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:48:32 +0000

yeah but there are better (and cheaper) alternatives of course… and don’t take so many resources as Vista does…

By: Gouki

Gouki — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:58:36 +0000

I think that as time passes by Microsoft has changed their standing on educating users.

Several newsletters especially made for home users can be something very useful for the proper way of handling, using and administrating Windows.

Are the home users interested in these? Fuck no!

Are administrators interested in these? 40% of them are.

What the hell then? If people think that it’s just installing and voilá, well, don’t expect it to do miracles.

I don’t think Windows is a bad OS – it has like everything else, flaws – I think the users MAKE IT look bad (the stupid ones, at least).

Fortunally there are ‘power users’ who understand what’s under the hood and how to work with it who try and share the truth: Windows is a good Operating System.

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:42:38 +0000

I agree with the comment that it is “how you configure it(xp)”
That is really true running as restricted user and using the “run as”
feature is pretty good also xp pro does have alot of security features built in.
The problem is Microsoft’s agenda of wanting to control people,and how better to do that than have the consumer pc market all run as admin and phone home to M$ headquarters every time you turn on the internet.
They do nothing to educate people on how to run as restricted user.
xp home is a joke they stripped all the security features you get with xp pro
you don’t even get the security tab to set files permissions unless in “safe mode” I am really surprised M$ has not been sued for this crap.

By: Gouki

Gouki — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:55:19 +0000

I don’t agree that Windows XP is insecure. It’s just a matter of how you configure it.

… and let’s wait until we get a final release of Vista before making comments about the the security problems. These companies should know better.

By: felix

felix — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:08:59 +0000

I do not agree with the point.
Although the code of Vista is fresh, it is well tested and the development of this OS is exactly followed the requirements of secure software development art.