Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 15:09 UTC, submitted by Dolphin
'The most secure Windows ever' may be very secure from hackers and malware - but what do you do when Longhorn Server let's you install the OS, set up Active Directory, and initialize the domain without once asking you to even create an administrator password? "What happened to Windows Server? Where did all of the stringent security checks and ultra-protection of Windows Server 2003 go? Windows Server 2000 was quite insecure, and Windows Server 2003 turned over a new leaf... But it seems Microsoft is more than willing to flip that page back - even Windows Server 2000 required an Administrator password at the very least."
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True, but the issue is more to do with the Microsoft culture rather than NT itself; NT has the potential to be the most secure operating system out there, had they stuck to the original NT design, but they chose to compromise for the sake of convienence, ease of use and compatibility - its all coming back to bite them in the ass.
Personally, if they did do the above, it would be the *perfect* opportunity to offer customers *deep* discounts on upgrades and competitive upgrades for Microsofts middleware.
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Or better yet, during installation, refuse to continue the installation programme until a password has been entered that is of a decent quality - 7 characters long, and not a real, dictionary based word, whch should stop dictionary based cracking attacks.