Security experts find flaws in Microsoft Windows Vista

New York Times by way of the Orlando Sentinel ^ | 25DEC06 | John Markoff

[familyop]

One of those errors, a serious one, is in the software code underlying the company's new Internet Explorer 7 browser...That would make it possible for an attacker to inject rogue software into the Vista-based computer...vulnerability described by the Russian Web site...permits the privileges of a standard user account in Vista and other versions of Windows to be increased, permitting control of all of the operations of the computer.

[jdm]

Security experts find flaws in Microsoft Windows Vista

Another one? Dang, that's like four this week so far.

[Echo Talon]

macuser.com:Windows Vista... doesn't suck

Folks, last month Microsoft has sent me the final (for now) release candidate of Windows Vista, due to be released to general users in January. And they couldn’t have deposited a more offensive thing into my stocking:

It doesn’t suck.

How could Microsoft have betrayed me like this?

Vista is actually a fairly decent OS.

…

(sigh.)

Poor mac users...

[Echo Talon]

BTW, I'm using Vista Right now with Firefox... and its pretty dang sweet...

[familyop]

"BTW, I'm using Vista Right now with Firefox... and its pretty dang sweet..."

I haven't seen Vista, yet. What's new with it? Does it have a more 3d look than XP? ...animations? ...efficiency improvements for work? ...anything on code for 64-bit packages?

Another project is also a little interesting for people who like 3d/artistic stuff and have plenty of computer/network resources: the DR17 version of the enlightenment window manager. It's getting fairly clean but is still in development.

[Echo Talon]

im using Vista Ultimate 64bit and it works great... the side bar is nice and it has some really nice "gadgets" i added one for the music that plays songs at random and it gives great control, I have ripped over 100 music cd's that i own to my hard drive at 192kbps in mp3 format... WMP11 is awesome! The new "sleep" feature in Vista is sweet and it will boot vista instantly(just enough time to turn on the monitor!) pretty impressive!

Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office 2007
Nero 7 Ultra Edition
AnyDVD(Will remove DVD encription
Divx
Ac3Filter
Vista Manager(good program to tweak vista like tweak ui another one is Tweak VI for vista)
Avast! Antivirus
7-Zip!
Cinema 4D r10 64bit.. sweet!!!!!!! (3D modeling)
32bit and 64bit internet explorer 7(web browser)
Firefox 2.0.0.1(web browser)
Flock(web browser)
Opera 9.10(web browser)

And Lots more!

[familyop]

Thank you!

My family is spending all hours possible to get most of our education on BSD (UNIX) platforms because of the part of the market I'm training for: development of multi-platform, direct rendering packages and uncostly, secure, fast networks with thin clients. I only get to have a peek at MS operating system interfaces once in a while for testing and the like, and we can't yet afford to buy everything new that's out there. Most networks that offer software for workplace efficiency also include an internal Microsoft server (familiar GUIs). We also need to guess as to how soon we should upgrade our MS drive for that purpose.

For now, we're also making decisions about whether we should concentrate on learning more about the MS GUI library or the Fox GUI Toolkit (very familiar look and feel for MS users but very portable to various OSs and good license addendum for commercial development).

[Echo Talon]

let me tell you something... this Vista is pretty nice..... after playing with it for over a week now... its just damn........ its great... I totally love it... I use Linux and Windows in dual boot.... not sure why I would want to run linux distros now... unless I want to mess around with sabayon linux to see some neat eye candy stuff beryl and all that or possibly trying out that new "looking glass" deal...

[Echo Talon]

OH, another program thats really cool is called "Advanced Windows Care V2 Professional" it does all sorts of stuff to vista to "tune" it up for ya... check it out ;)

[familyop]

"OH, another program thats really cool is called "Advanced Windows Care V2 Professional" it does all sorts of stuff to vista to "tune" it up for ya... check it out ;)"

That's good to make a note of for a mostly binary system. Thanks again!

[Echo Talon]

yea... its nice to have tools...The FUD surrounding Vista is totally unjustified...

[steve-b]

Security experts find flaws in Microsoft Windows Vista

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