@joemck said:
@Dudehole said:
Well in a year or so Microsoft is going to fix this mess once and for all and just release their own anti-virus software. OneCare sucked but the new one should be quite sufficient enough to make a lot of these bloated AV suites obsolete.Yes, because we all know Microsoft is good at making non-bloated suites that just work...
[ducks]
The only problem I had with Windows Vista is that some things require admin priveleges to run (like AutoMKV) that don't state that they do, and they fail silently. I also assume this is partly because the application was not rewritten to work with Vista's security model. That and ATI's crap x64 driver -- CCC has yet to load successfully after an entire year of owning my graphics cards and doing monthly driver upgrades with a full uninstall.
Windows Vista has two killer features that make me overlook everything that is wrong with it, until all is made well again in Win7: ASLR and IO priority. ASLR randomizes the memory of windows making it very hard to do any type of reliable memory-based attack even without DEP or if loaded before windows, and IO priority makes sure all apps have a chance to read/write from disk and one application cannot lock up the computer during a disk intensive function, which seemed to happen all the time on every other windows computer I owned.