Microsoft has said that the version of IE7 for Vista will differ slightly from the one for XP and down. "I want to announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista 'Internet Explorer 7+'. While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+, most significantly the addition of Windows Vista-only features like Protected Mode, Parental Controls, and improved Network Diagnostics. These features take advantage of big changes in Windows Vista and weren't practical to bring downlevel."
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Member since:2005-11-11
//Sigh. You agreed with my point, but also said I missed the point? wtf? //
Sigh. Your problem is your double standard. According to you Linux must apparently go beyond just addressing buffer overflows because of some vague notion that you have that home directories of Linux users are somehow (in a yet-to-be-defined mechanism) vulnerable to "malicious" shell scripts (yet to be seen in the real world, with a yet-to-be-defined means of getting on to a system and getting executed) ... yet you acknowledge there are no such malicious scripts out there posing any practical threat.
Windows, OTOH, has a demonstrably failed security model, easily penetrated with literally thousands upon thousands of active security threats out there and literally millions of already-compromised systems, and you never mention the need for Windows to improve, mend its security model, break with the flawed security imposed by attempts to retain backwards compatibility.
Sigh. Your immense bias is showing, Windows fanboy. Mucho embarrasment, methinks.
Meanwhile, my sister-in-law tells me that whenever she plugs in her USB stick at her work, it tells her it has removed a virus, and when she brings files to work on at home on her USB stick, the very next day at work when she tries to put her updated files back on the work machine tells her it has deleted another virus from the USB stick. Her son tells me the same thing is happening with his USB stick and his homework laptop, and he gets a similar message when he takes his USB stick to school.
I ask them if they are still using firefox that I had installed. No, they tell me, because the man from their new ISP put Internet Explorer back (and deleted firefox) when he set up their new internet account.
Sigh!
I explain to her that it is her home machine that has the virus (probably it got on to their system because they used Internet Explorer), and the virus is trying to propogate via the USB stick every time she plugs it into a different Windows machine after having used it on her machine. This means I will have to spend many hours some weekend soon trying to help her out and get rid of the virus without hosing her home machine installation. Sigh. All this useless makework just because Bill Gates and co want a lock-in computing monoculture, and refuse to fix Windows security. I'm sick of it.
Oh well, at least my own Linux machines stay clean and I don't have to waste countless hours of my time fixing them.
Edited 2006-05-31 10:46
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
Sigh. You agreed with my point, but also said I missed the point? wtf?
I had one original point, and you agreed with it. The end.