Re: Windows 7 Beta review link

["Daniel H. Renner" <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

I don't see Corporate business being won over by Win v7 unless the intrusive 'Content Protection', as in media 
degradation/re-structure (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html) and the ability to collect data 
by any 3rd party included in Microsoft's club (see the Vista EULA quote below) are removed.

Also, in my experience, the "slow-moving hardware performance" had absolutely nothing to do with hardware, but rather 
everything to do with extra processes running in the background of Vista.  When a brand new computer with 2GB of RAM, 
no anti-virus installed and not connected to a network is continually running the hard drive for hours while in blank 
screen saver mode with the unit's screen powered down -- it is not slow hardware.

But then I may be thinking too much...

> From the Vista EULA:
"Consent to Use of Data. You agree that Microsoft and its affiliates may collect and use technical information gathered 
in any manner"

(Unabashed self-plug:)
Article: 'Who owns your computer?"
http://itdiaries.com/2005/08/30/who-owns-the-data-on-your-computer/


Sincerely,

Daniel H. Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
A division of Computerhelp, Inc.
818-352-8700
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com

"Inactivity is death" - Benito Mussolini
(Even evil dictators know the truth...)



funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:57:33 -0500
> From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Windows 7 Beta review link
> To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
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> > > > Just Vista SP2, really...
>
> Lots of truth in this. Most of the praise for Win7 seems to me less
> about Win7 itself than as a swipe at Vista. In fact little that people
> criticize in Vista will change in Win7, it's just that Vista "took one
> for the team" by forcing driver developers to catch up, for app
> developers to rearchitect so their users wouldn't have to deal with UAC,
> and for going through an era relatively slow-moving hardware performance
> improvement. These situations will all have improved by the time Win7
> comes out, making it seem more architected to the times than Vista was.
>
> Why am I writing this here? I could blog this and get paid for it.
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com



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