"TechWorld is reporting that Microsoft plans to move graphics outside of the Windows Vista kernel by pulling the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF, formerly codenamed 'Avalon') out of the Vista kernel. MSWatch asked Microsoft for clarification. Here's the official statement: "Because WPF is largely written in managed code on the common language runtime, it never ran in kernel mode."
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Member since:Like vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Kerberos, PHP, Telnet, Sendmail, and more.
Are you suggesting Microsoft is writing software without vulnerabilities? Since when?
If its possibile for you to fathom this, Apple doesn't have to spend all their time fixing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Kerberos, PHP, Telnet, Sendmail, etc. And they don't have to spend their time reinventing those wheels we so commonly forget and take for granted today.
Every computer has ssh and telnet and a mail server. Well, almost every computer.
Member since:2005-07-06
Are you suggesting Microsoft is writing software without vulnerabilities? Since when?
No, but the original question dealt with MS writing their own code vs. just using what everyone else does. The poster asked what vulnerabilities Apple had gained from their approach, so I pointed them out.
If its possibile for you to fathom this, Apple doesn't have to spend all their time fixing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Kerberos, PHP, Telnet, Sendmail, etc. And they don't have to spend their time reinventing those wheels we so commonly forget and take for granted today.
But it doesn't change the fact that they've gained the same vulnerabilities as OSS code by basing OS X on the same code. The time they spend fixing such vulnerabilities wasn't an issue. It was that their approach of appropriating OSS code left them vulnerable to the same exploits and they have more now than they did w/ previous versions of the OS that used their own code.
Every computer has ssh and telnet and a mail server. Well, almost every computer.
But not all use the same implementation or are derived from the same implementation thus leaving them vulnerable due to a common base.
Edited 2005-12-19 06:56
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2005-07-06
I don't think it's possible to shoot wider than that.
You do know that NT's primary competition has been commercial Unix distributions from vendors like Sun, HP, IBM and others, right?
Nope. Linux is taking over commercial Unix's share as well as some people running Windows servers like NT 4.0. Windows servers are merely replacing old Windows NT, or to a lesser extent 2000, installations. Sorry, but Windows is doing nothing and going nowhere except where it has always been.
This isn't even worth arguing. It's historical fact. Look at commercial Unix share before NT's introduction and look at it today. Look at recent wins for Windows and Linux that have been at the cost of commercial Unix installations. Look at highly touted Linux-to-Windows migrations that still haven't happened because the entity didn't account for the lack of equivalent OS services or software on Linux.
Like what?
Like vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, Kerberos, PHP, Telnet, Sendmail, and more. Apple inherited those directly due to their 'we can get a whole heap of free code, and simply mold it to our needs' approach.