[lexmarks567]

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 — Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.

On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user’s privileges on all of the company’s recent operating systems, including Vista. And over the weekend a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified Microsoft that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code underlying the company’s new Internet Explorer 7 browser.

The browser flaw is particularly troubling because it potentially means that Web users could become infected with malicious software simply by visiting a booby-trapped site. That would make it possible for an attacker to inject rogue software into the Vista-based computer, according to executives at Determina, a company based in Redwood City, Calif., that sells software intended to protect against operating system and other vulnerabilities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/t...02800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

 

[valis]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/t...02800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Have an odd feeling that this isn't going to be the last time we hear of security flaws with Vista......thanks for sharing, lex...

 

[SouthParkXP101]

its a microsoft product....... what do you expect?

 

[Stoner]

Not a good start.
I lagged on buying into XP until both the price of a computer became more attractive and XP became mature and the worst of the known flaws in XP were addressed ( hopefully ).
It will be interesting to see how the general public perceives this.

 

[valis]

Not a good start.
I lagged on buying into XP until both the price of a computer became more attractive and XP became mature and the worst of the known flaws in XP were addressed ( hopefully ).
It will be interesting to see how the general public perceives this.

did the same thing. Xp was out around 3 years before I bought it. Still unsure if I made a mistake or not.

I think Vista is going to be raked over the coals, personally. Time will tell.

 

[SouthParkXP101]

hmmm i just read the paper this morning..... found more flaws there too with security

more info in vista forum

 

[SouthParkXP101]

did the same thing. Xp was out around 3 years before I bought it. Still unsure if I made a mistake or not.

I think Vista is going to be raked over the coals, personally. Time will tell.

wanna know the truth from me?

ive only owned windows xp personally for about a year....... i was really attached to 98 se

 

[valis]

ditto, but once I played with 2k I was hooked. Still think it was the best os they made....nowhere near as many bugs as xp, pretty secure (for windows), and solid as a rock.

Again, time will tell.

 

[SouthParkXP101]

i still like to play around with the 95 and 98 machines, i hated 2k:down: dont know why just did not like it


really killed me when i had to give up my windows 95 at work and upgrade to xp:down:

 

[hewee]

Read this here.

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

 

[valis]

read that somewhere else, hewee.....still like the 'longest suicide note in history' part......I've been saying for some time that vista/longhorn, plus the fresh movement from Apple, is really going to level the playing field.....

Time will tell.

 

[dr20]

Windows Vista is beginning to sound like Windows Millennium with DRM. And what's up with Microsoft's determination to do away with old style file menus? Did it ever occur to them many of us still like that setup because it keeps things organized instead of scattered all over the place like IE7 is?

 

[ACA529]

What else is new?

Aren't all the versions of MS IE vulnerable?

 

[SouthParkXP101]

My version of windows Vista is best... i get the looks and features of vista , but it runs on XP

 

[ACA529]

My version of windows Vista is best... i get the looks and features of vista , but it runs on XP

Are you using some type of mod? Or did you just use the Vista theme?

 

[SouthParkXP101]

Vista themes

look in the "Show us your Desktops #(2)"
thread, i posted screen shots

 

[JohnWill]

My version of windows Vista is best... i get the looks and features of vista , but it runs on XP

But one of my major complaints is that Vista moved everything around and looks different! If I want my computer to look like Vista, I'll run Vista.

 

[ACA529]

But one of my major complaints is that Vista moved everything around and looks different! If I want my computer to look like Vista, I'll run Vista.

That's a good point.

 

[SouthParkXP101]

But one of my major complaints is that Vista moved everything around and looks different! If I want my computer to look like Vista, I'll run Vista.

nothing moves around on here....

all in the same place just looks updated in vista style

 

[hewee]

read that somewhere else, hewee.....still like the 'longest suicide note in history' part......I've been saying for some time that vista/longhorn, plus the fresh movement from Apple, is really going to level the playing field.....

Time will tell.

It sure does not sound good and lots of people are going to be mad over things not working or working right or as good as it should and the cost going up etc.

Then like you said there is Apple