Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 14:56 UTC
NewsWeek interviewed Bill Gates about Vista, its reception, and Apple, among other things. On the complaint that some of the features in Vista appear to come from the Mac: "You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it's fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
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2005-11-11
All you can do with this is play funny games like shutting down your computer, or closing windows; making this a BUG, NOT a security issue.
Or delete the user's documents folder and empty the trash.
Aren't you one of those who is always telling people running with a LUA in Linux isn't really a panacea, since malware could still delete all your personal files and your data is what really matters etc etc?
It's somewhat amusing to see you now blow off a working example of exactly that (except on Windows). I would think your valid observation would apply to Windows too no?