Apr 12
Amid an overwhelmingly negative presentation from analyst group Gartner that claims “Windows is collapsing,” many are beginning to wonder what is in store for Windows 7, and how radical a departure from its current code base W7 might be. Vista is clearly the straw that has broken the camel’s back. Years and years of bloated code and a failed attempt to support 20 years of outdated software and ancient peripherals have left the operating system a total mess. Vista is so big and complicated that attempting to build additional code onto it is futile.
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Apr 11
One of Windows Vista’s design features was deliberately implemented “to annoy users,” a Microsoft executive admitted yesterday at the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco. David Cross, a product unit manager, explained to an audience that Vista’s User Account Control scheme was built to discourage people from running as an administrator on their computers, which in case of attack can grant hackers deeper access than they might otherwise be allowed. “We needed to change the ecosystem, and we needed a heavy hammer to do it,” said Cross.
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Apr 10
Microsoft said Tuesday that it’s resumed distribution of a prerequisite file for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 after fixing a bug that caused some users’ computers to enter a cycle of reboots during installation of the file. The fix applies to Microsoft’s Servicing Stack Update for Vista SP1. Users need to install the update before downloading SP1.
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Apr 09
Microsoft yesterday issued eight patches for 10 flaws, including six critical vulnerabilities that hackers have already started to pore over. While there were no zero-day flaws, the new batch poses a very real danger to users, who can be unknowingly redirected to a malicious site, or infected by viewing a malicious ad inserted onto an otherwise trusted Web site. April’s Patch Tuesday also takes the shine off Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1, which needed patching due to their extensive reuse of legacy Windows code.
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