The Vista game was over before the article:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1324395,00.html
By Dennis Fisher, Executive Editor 07 Aug 2008 |
SearchSecurity.com
LAS VEGAS
-- Two security researchers have developed a new technique that
essentially bypasses
all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista
operating system,
an advance that many in the security community say will have
far-reaching implications
not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology
industry thinks about attacks.
In a presentation at the Black Hat briefings, Mark Dowd of IBM
Internet Security Systems (ISS) and
Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. will discuss the new methods
they've found to get around Vista protections .......
While http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=513 may diminish some of the panic,
there are other more fundamental problems with Vista.
Example:
For an end-user, Windows will run reasonably well on a PIII chip that is much
slower than today's processors should that PIII have at least 512MB. J can
run comfortably in such an environment.
Vista OTOH requires in truth 2GB for decent performance. While RAM is
relatively cheap, a GB today costing the same as a MB in 1995, it makes
no sense to upgrade perfectly useful computers from XP to Vista. Also,
so many legacy devices have no Vista drivers. A lot of legacy software
also will not run on Vista.
With OpenOffice free (openoffice.org) there's little reason to buy office.
Major hardware vendors now offer PCs with Linux installed. OpenOffice
runs on both Windows and Linux.
The best thing about Vista imo are the funny television commercials
that Apple gets to make as humourus sarcasm.
Unless you really need to view through your title bar at what lies
behind, imo there is no compelling reason to get Vista.
Sadly, if you buy a new PC, you've limited choice. Every PC in
stores seems to come with only Vista. There may still be some provision
to downgrade to XP but to do that would be beyond most end-users ability.
FC
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