Comments on: Microsoft Says Vista & Windows 7 Are The Most Secure OSes Ever

By: Microsoft says Vista and Windows 7 are one of the most secure OSes | Window7s

Tue, 19 May 2009 12:48:30 +0000

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IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 30th, 2009 - Part 1 | Boycott Novell — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:58:11 +0000

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By: Ryan Farmer

Ryan Farmer — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:41:51 +0000

When there’s 300,000 viruses for Linux and I need to have a built in anti-spyware in addition to running an antivirus program, both real time scanning everything, and the OS pesters me every time I click on anything, I’ll believe them.

Til then, consider the source.

By: Martin Ayres

Martin Ayres — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:01:30 +0000

I Totally Agree with Ron i have had windows vista,Xp,Nt ,2000,98,95 Customer Machines totally corrupted with Virus and trojans, one machine had 400 infections .On the other hand ,i have Been runing all of the above on my own machines ,With Both Firewall ,and antivirus and have never had to reload any of them because of infections Regards to all Martin

By: applefan

applefan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:49:55 +0000

What? Is Ballmer on crack again?

By: Microsoft says Vista and Windows 7 are one of the most secure OSes | Windows 7 Center

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:58:11 +0000

[...] from LockerGnome raised a good point: Is it the OS that protects the user or the user that protects the OS? Let me [...]

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:08:42 +0000

Hi DMX,
I believe that Windows 7 will be an improvement. Like others have said – Windows 7 will be what Vista should of been.

By: DMX

DMX — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:34:43 +0000

I’d really like to get a chance to try the new windows, because unfortunately for me Vista was a fairly negative experience (Brand new ‘vista ready’ ASUS laptop that ran like a turd and blue screened regularly and didnt support Dx 10 very well) but I have heard some pretty promising things about the new windows.

That said, part of my angst about windows led me to get a mac for my desktop, and to be honest, I’m pretty happy with it. Perhaps its the known hardware/software combination , but its stable as hell, and the security model seems just right. Anything requiring privelege escalation gets a password pop up, but it seems to do it in a way that isnt obtrusive like the Vista one seems to be. There should never be a good reason to ask for root permissions more than once. I’m told that microsoft made it annoying on purpose to pressure software developers. As a consumer that makes me almost hostile, because I certainly don’t pay money for a company to make my day more irritating.

Hopefully windows 7 has got that balance right.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:43:15 +0000

Thanks for the additional comments.

Ben – good points.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:34:28 +0000

I find this kind of strange for a number of reasons. Like you i have been around windows for a long time i cant however imagine that they think vista and 7 is more secure than linux and osx.

If they do think so and this is obviously the case then tell me why i need to run a antivirus program to ensure my computer is in tip top running condition.

Not only that but you only have to look at the top 500 super computers in the world and what O/S they are running.

It kind of baffles me in the end why they think this but i suppose the good thing about this is if you believe in your product enough to care about and how others see it then i guess thats only going to make it better.

Safer than linux and OSX personaly no i dont think so but where would we be without direct x.

Ben