Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 22:01 UTC
"Microsoft has gone out on a limb to promote Vista not merely as 'the most secure version of Windows ever' (every recent version is marketed with that tired slogan), but for the first time as an adequately secure version of Windows. 'We've got the message and we've done our homework', the company says. So let's see if the reality lives up to the marketing hype."
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2005-07-08
Don't let a few rude word choices by a journalist fool you. The article is indeed very critical but such critical articles are sorely needed if we are willing to get rid of all the security and privacy problems haunting us all Internet users today. The article is just a good critical review of MS Windows security weaknesses (also other than IE weknesses, read the other two pages besides of the first page too).
The article plainly shows how the high hopes of Vista becoming the first really secure version of Windows are not really fullfilled, unfortunately so. Maybe The MS people were too busy building all those new DRM features into the OS instead of thinking what's best for the user, i.e. improving users' security and privacy?
But maybe the next version of MS Windows after Vista will be that secure version of Windows, or maybe even Vista SP1, SP2..??