During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed. Elsewhere, bigg boss Bill Gates says that antitrust authorities did not make Microsoft remove any features from Vista, but he expressed anger with competitors who embarked on noisy public campaigns to 'castrate' the operating system.
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Somebody already said why, above. It's fun to see dumb people look down the gun barrel to see if it's loaded. It's comedy at its finest.
Claims that Vista will be very secure are for the moment just hilarious jokes, contradicted by about 10 years of history and all the previous Microsoft operating systems. Until there's actual proof that Vista won't let dumb people shoot themselves in the face, let us have our fun.
Member since:2005-07-22
Why would that make you happy?
I didn't say it would make me happy. I said I would smile. There's no happiness in smiling. Haven't you ever hear about something called sarcasm?
People on this site are so sickening.
I would say people that markets Windows as is, with all its failures and problems, asking for hundreds of dollars for something that doesn't have that value and pushes that OS into everyone using FUD and other dirty techniques, that those are sickening. Not a simple person here in OSNews os ./ commenting with a little sarcasm.
Get a grip on reality, dude.
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2005-07-22
I'll smile when a constant stream of malware atacks Vista 1 day after launch.