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How come nobody ever seems to remember WinME?

And personally, I believe the truth is in the middle. After all, there ARE OS models that are more secure by design than other OSes. Windows has been, after all, usually run by people who have administrator privledges (unlike any of the 'Nixes) and lots of other ways that people have even been enouraged to use bad security policies. Have you ever tried to run Windows in the regular user mode?? It's barely usable. I tried it once with a friends kid's accounts and they couldn't even play Age of Empires II... a MICROSOFT video game.... in anything other than administrator mode.

It DOES appear as if Microsoft has been very security focused and since they designed the new OS from the ground up with that focus in mind; I believe they probably made some fundemental changes to the OS from a security standpoint. After all, it's not like they don't have SOME good people working for them and they've got 10 times the development budget Apple does. Sure it's going to be new and untried. And sure there are going to be issues and vunerabilites. But there are bound to be many changes for the better too.
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Much better but still...  csa0307 | 03/17/06
Vista has a new secure architecture  cars123 | 03/18/06
Don't believe it. It could be worse to start. There are millions of lines  DonnieBoy | 03/17/06
brilliant  csa0307 | 03/17/06
But that would mean  John Zern | 03/17/06
Edumacation  handydan918 | 03/17/06
re: of new bloated code in Vista. Who knows where all of the holes are?  IronCladChicken | 03/17/06
Article is speculation  Gasman_z | 03/17/06
Re: Don't believe  BXLE | 03/17/06
My evidence is  jacarter3 | 03/17/06
Of course it will...  Wolfie2K3 | 03/18/06
more  unoriginal_sin | 03/20/06
Not to worry: MS has sufficient defects in its  michael_t | 03/17/06
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who let the trolls out?  bitfuzzy | 03/17/06
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And what have I been telling you guys?  IronCladChicken | 03/17/06
Technology to the forefront?  Gasman_z | 03/17/06
I too support Windows during the day, but . . .  jbkendrick | 03/17/06
your nose is brown again  stormdoor | 03/17/06
Forgive stormdoor  Loverock Davidson | 03/17/06
how original  stormdoor | 03/17/06
No, he can think, he made a choice  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/17/06
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Pessimistic view  Loverock Davidson | 03/17/06
well....  timoute | 03/17/06
optimistic view  stormdoor | 03/17/06
I can't wait..  mdsmedia | 03/17/06
Apples & Oranges again???  puppadave | 03/17/06
Thanks for the tongue in cheek, I needed it....  BXLE | 03/17/06
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Loverock...every time you touch a keyboard you look stupid.  mdsmedia | 03/17/06
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happy  plon | 03/17/06
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Right-untapped potential for MS  wkazak@... | 03/17/06
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Gi. YoGi.  D. T. Schmitz | 03/18/06
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We are doomed  wkazak@... | 03/17/06
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MS and silly/crappy s/w: surprised?  michael_t | 03/19/06
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