At 8:55 AM -0400 3/20/07, Michael S Hines wrote: > I'm not sure what your sources are but from what I'm hearing and reading the > problem is that there are many missing drivers for what have become standard > peripherals that people are used to - and some of the vendors are reluctant > to develop new drivers (the driver technology changed in Vista - so all > drivers have to be reworked). > > MP3 players, ePhones, PDA's, etc. have become standard components in many > places... and they don't work with Vista - yet (if ever).
That is because the features provided by many add-on products depended on the longstanding loose state of security on Microsoft Windows. > It's the feature thing.... not that users are shunning security. > > And, at least to me, it is an indication that M$ did not understand the > marketplace or rushed the (incomplete) product to market. There's more than > one way to foul up a new product launch. The previous Microsoft mode had been to favor anything that would ease feature implementation over anything that would provide security. -- Larry Kilgallen _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
