Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Dec 2008 23:44 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
I'm sure you're all still (sadly) familiar with the recent 'debate' I had with InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, which detailed a lot of silly things. The seed of that discussion was planted with Kennedy's first article which, among other things, claimed that Windows 7 performed similarly to Windows Vista (meaning, slower than XP). Leaving the thread count discussion behind, Kennedy did include a benchmark which showed that Windows 7 performed similar to Windows Vista. There's a new benchmark out now, comparing a slightly more recent build of Windows 7 to Vista RTM/SP1 and XP SP3, and in these tests, Windows 7 blows all of those out of the water.
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"Ok how do you run a program out of the box that will not run without admin rights?"
Uh, Gee, I don't know, you get the idiots who wrote it to use non-privileged locations for installation, data storage and registry entries?
"You just contradicted yourself, this is not to be blamed on just software writers it is a flaw of the Windows Operating System."
Oh, so the Windows Operating System makes it impossible to create an application that doesn't require administrative rights? Do tell.
"I am not going to argue with someone who read a report on Windows NT years ago, you are incorrect and you have never worked in an Enterprise environment."
I am not wrong. I have worked in an Enterprise environment. I was merely stating that Windows NT 3.x, the first versions of the Windows kernel that had much of a concept of user rights and privileges could support programs that didn't require Administrative rights to run.
"Theory and Hype is what Windows is built on, if it is so wonderful why is constantly exploited on the desktop/server?"
What?
"Why do you need to install Anti-Virus/Spyware just to keep it halfway operational?"
I don't run anti-virus or anti-spyware. Besides, this has nothing whatsoever to do with whose at fault for the mess of programs that require administrative rights.
"Microsoft does not share the code to enable software writers to make the programs behave in a correct fashion."
Ummm. Yes they do. It's quite simple.
"I believe in a free Republic however I do not believe in selling software that mis-represents and has blatant security flaws that are inherit in all versions of Windows period."
Wow, you really aren't capable of forming a coherent argument are you?
"It is the same code base, just rehashed with pretty graphics and some extra bloat ware to make people think who this is neat. Then after using it for 3 months the performance has deteriorated which requires reboots, defrag, and so on."
Uh, sure.
"I know what I am talking about and you are incorrect."
No you don't, and no, I'm not.