Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st Nov 2005 21:04 UTC
The release of the software giant's new operating system will be one of Microsoft's most important product launches this decade, when it goes live next year. But despite the product's myriad new features and functionality, current market trends could inhibit initial adoption of Vista, PC industry analysts say.
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"One of Vista's selling points is that users will not all run as admin by default."
To me this is all a moot arguement, because there exists a vast amount of cheesy software that needs the user to be root. What are you going to do when your mission critical software (accounting software, database client, printer drivers, scanning software, etc.) will only run as root user without problems? Yeah, you could use the "runas" feature, but a lot of times this does not work well. XP has been out for years and many of these vendors are still using antiquated programming styles and technicques from the early 90's. I believe that if Microsoft does not use its might to seriously motivate these developers to fix their apps, Vista is not going to be any more secure than any previous Windows incarnation.