Microsoft is loosing control
It seems that Microsoft is loosing it's grip on the computing industry. As open source software radiates, influencing user's expectations of software, MS is forced to comply with those expectations.
I was reading an article about Windows "Vista" (is that ever a dumb name) about how much more resistant Vista will be against spy-ware. One of the things the article stated was that unlike Windows XP, Vista will default to a limited account and administrator accounts will only be used for administration tasks (huh, that's an interesting idea - to bad it doesn't work too well in Windows XP). As MS tries to make windows more secure and more stable, it starts looking more and more like a Unix - but I doubt that it ever truly will be.
I remember how great Windows XP was supposed to be. It ain't that great. I doubt that Vista will be either. Sure, a lot of people will fall for the new eye-candy and the illusion of improved security - wait 2 years (if that) until the spy-ware authors have had time to find the holes.
Remember the stupid Windows Messenger service (not MSN Messenger, I'm talking about the stupid thing that allowed all the simple grey-box pop-ups advertising anti-spyware software and porn - at random without the need for a browser to ever have been opened). That was a blatant "mistake" on Microsoft's part - the service defaulting to always running with no protection from the wild (the internet). Stupid. Notice that in recent versions of XP, it is disabled by default - took them long enough.
Here's a Spyware Anti-spyware rant for which I don't want to start another post, so I'll just tack it on here.
Spyware (in my mind spyware and adware are complete synonyms - or adware is a specific kind of spyware) advertises anti-spyware software. How stupid is this. What kind of a world do we live in where people actually fall for this kind of crap. And they do fall for it. I've seen it with my own eyes. I think that the same thing is going on with anti-virus companies. It's the same as mafia insurance - "Buy our insurance or else"
I was reading an article about Windows "Vista" (is that ever a dumb name) about how much more resistant Vista will be against spy-ware. One of the things the article stated was that unlike Windows XP, Vista will default to a limited account and administrator accounts will only be used for administration tasks (huh, that's an interesting idea - to bad it doesn't work too well in Windows XP). As MS tries to make windows more secure and more stable, it starts looking more and more like a Unix - but I doubt that it ever truly will be.
I remember how great Windows XP was supposed to be. It ain't that great. I doubt that Vista will be either. Sure, a lot of people will fall for the new eye-candy and the illusion of improved security - wait 2 years (if that) until the spy-ware authors have had time to find the holes.
Remember the stupid Windows Messenger service (not MSN Messenger, I'm talking about the stupid thing that allowed all the simple grey-box pop-ups advertising anti-spyware software and porn - at random without the need for a browser to ever have been opened). That was a blatant "mistake" on Microsoft's part - the service defaulting to always running with no protection from the wild (the internet). Stupid. Notice that in recent versions of XP, it is disabled by default - took them long enough.
Here's a Spyware Anti-spyware rant for which I don't want to start another post, so I'll just tack it on here.
Spyware (in my mind spyware and adware are complete synonyms - or adware is a specific kind of spyware) advertises anti-spyware software. How stupid is this. What kind of a world do we live in where people actually fall for this kind of crap. And they do fall for it. I've seen it with my own eyes. I think that the same thing is going on with anti-virus companies. It's the same as mafia insurance - "Buy our insurance or else
posted by phil at 8:20 PM
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Yeah, except that /. recently had a post about how MS is expanding into the corporate world. Perhapas they are simply shifting control.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/17/1621252
I think they're too late for that and their software is junk and people know that - especially professionals who would be handling those corporate jobs.
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