Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Nov 2006 23:20 UTC
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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2006-11-10
So the system will not need an AV software.. until what? a month after release? i am pretty sure that there will be a need eventually. Does anyone have a list of "features" that have been completely cut out of Vista btw (besides the SQL file system)? For some reason I think there will be attacks on Vista just as there was on Windows 2000 and XP, both of which were heralded as the most secure Windows till that day.
I'd take this all with a bit of salt, its close to release day (for businesses), good marketing is needed.
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