(OT) Interesting article on Vista

[Vu Pham]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 12:06 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 February 2007 05:09:38 Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > Here's a cnet take on it:
> > >
> > > http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6689143-1.html?tag=nl.e497
> > >
> >
> > Interesting statement in this article:
> >
> > "If you are the only one using your Home edition of Windows Vista, logically,
> > you should be running the administrator account. "
> >
> > Makes it hard to believe anything else in the piece.
> >
> 
> No, that's the M$ line.  Why do you think Lindows originally ran
> everything as root?
> 
> Remember the roots of Windows NT/ME/XP -- Windows 3.0 (no network, one
> machine, one user), not Windows 3.1 (one machine, one user, with a
> network patch applied).
> 
> This still forms the basis of all the problems with Windows and why I
> say Windows should be banned from the Internet.  We have millions of
> lusers connected running as root.  That's scary (when you understand
> the implications).
> 

If Windows was banned from the Internet it would cause a BIG problem for
the IT industry : all Symantec-like, register-fixing and
optimizing-stuff companies will go bankruptcy. :)

Vu