Virus Inside - Switch To AppleHowever, who needs parody when the real thing is at least equally funny? Over at Silicon.com yesterday, we have two videos of Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platform products and services division, talking about Vista.
There is a recurring theme in these sessions. Security is the new Windows. Example:
Q: What's the killer feature for the average home PC user?
A: I think that safety and security is the overriding feature that most people will want to have Windows Vista for, even if they're not into home entertainment, or in any of the specialty areas, they're just gonna feel more safe and secure by using it for a variety of features, whether it be in terms of anti-malware protection or in terms of the anti-phishing protection or in the fact that we can put IE in a sandbox and protect people from accidentally getting bad information or bad code on their system.
Done laughing yet? I'll wait.
Hmmm. Sandbox. Sounds like a good idea. I wonder if that's been thought of before? More than once perchance?
Oh, and what anti-malware protection? El Reg today carries this story - MS to omit anti-virus from Vista. Look. It's so secure, it doesn't even need anti-virus. We'll just gloss over the fact that a critical patch has already been issued for Vista to fix the WMF vulnerability. You remember, that backdoor left open by design, not by accident.
They seem to have all the bases covered, then. What could possibly go wrong?
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1. Richard Schwartz31/01/2006 20:39:44
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More than twice, too. Before there was anything for anyone to actually run in a Java sandbox, there was the Notes client sandbox, with digitally-signed code and privileges controlled at a fine-grain level by the ECL.
2. Jerry Carter01/02/2006 19:07:30
All I can do is laugh.
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