Early adopters of Microsoft's new Vista operating system are reporting problems with its implementation of IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary protocol. "Vista is showing some serious deficiencies around IPv6 and IPv4 insofar as their compliance or the transparency of their compliance around IP behaviors," says Loki Jorgenson, chief scientist for Apparent Networks, a provider of network assessment and optimization tools.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2007-05-20
I agree, all OSes have bugs and the occasional security flaw. But MS consistently fails to deliver correctly even basic, every day functionality. Example (faced recently): Windows explorer cannot copy files with paths that exceed 259 chars. Mind you, this happens on Win 2003 Server, their flagship server OS. What good is a Server that allows users to create these files and then denies them copying them? And this is an old Win2K bug that is still here, 7 years later. Enough said.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-22
You wanted someone to list an O/S that secure and is not buggy.
How about these two for starters.
Z/OS
OpenVMS
HP Non-Stop
Ok, they are not PC Operating Systems but they just work and often for years between reboots/ipl's.
The sort of things you can do with these two beauties ancient as they maybe, just make Vista look like what it really is "Looks Good, Tastes Good and by golly does you no good" to borrow heavily from an old advert for a famous Irish Stout.
OpenVMS clusterwide filesystem, rolling O/S upgrades in a cluster, diskless cluster nodes etc.
Been very secure for years. No usermode silliness here.
Member since:2007-03-04
Member since:2005-08-11
Man, you love to beat that dead horse. MS wouldn't have put any DRM in the damn thing if the Labels and studios hadn't made them, nobody likes it, including MS. The Studios have made it almost impossible for a normal consumer to watch an HD or Blue-ray disk on thier computer without it. Apple has lots of DRM in Itunes and OS X, but you aren't complaining about that. Please, find another drum to pound on, at least for some variety
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2005-09-17
Can't MS atleast have 1 os that is not unsecure &/or buggy???