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Just look at Windows 2003. NOTHING is installed by default. If you install IIS, no features are installed, you have to choose things like FTP or HTTP services. If you choose HTTP, no sample scripts or anything else like .asp support is installed by default. If you choose SMTP, relay and connectivity is disabled by default.

Even IE is locked down, you can?t even surf the web unless you manually enable each site you visit. I would have to say that Windows 2003 is the most locked down by default OS of any vendor ever.

Windows XP SP2 will have Internet Connection Firewall on by default. This will be a massive seismic change on the Internet. Be prepared to see half of the Internet disappear in terms of ICMP echoes. Even if your typical user never applies Critical updates, they will have a hard stateful packet inspection shell around them to even guard against neighboring computers on the LAN. No other OS includes a functional firewall let alone a Stateful inspection firewall.

Microsoft is like the restaurant that got caught and badly embarrassed with rotten meat, they?re quickly forced to become the cleanest restaurant in town.
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Hail longhorn!  pa2004 | 11/03/03
Haha  iKenny | 11/08/03
Hail longworn  Mustermister | 11/13/03
Longhorn is such a waste of time...  longwait | 12/16/03
.NET--What IE was to the Windows API  KeithRisler | 11/03/03
"The all-new .NET ...  dsentman@... | 11/17/03
nothing new here!  screaming silence | 11/03/03
As you put it...  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
never  screaming silence | 11/03/03
OS/2 vs Windows. Case closed!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/03/03
that was because of the monopolistic practices  screaming silence | 11/03/03
They can just do it again  voska | 11/03/03
What nonsense  Stewart Cannon | 11/03/03
Jackson's View  Fred Fredrickson | 11/03/03
Re: that was because of monopolistic practices  Mark Miller | 11/03/03
It was much more IBM's own fault  goyta | 11/04/03
Amen!  AxleMunshine | 11/04/03
Why not?  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
RE: Nothing new here  johnvbrennan@... | 11/03/03
RE: Nothing new here  jimsum | 11/04/03
Nice reply  AxleMunshine | 11/04/03
Premature  Mack DaNife | 11/03/03
Security...  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
Re: Security  Mack DaNife | 11/03/03
More Security  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
Re: More Security  Mack DaNife | 11/03/03
Now, if Microsoft will only turn off unneeded services...  Stewart Cannon | 11/03/03
Security (Yeah.... right *snicker*)  Hard Cider | 11/03/03
It's already reality  george_ou | 11/03/03
No other OS includes a functional firewall  NemesisNL | 11/04/03
Is it stateful? Does it have UPnP and SIP?  george_ou | 11/04/03
You were wront. You even admit it.  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
Nice context tweaking.  george_ou | 11/04/03
Oh George.  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
Re: You have a choice  Mark Miller | 11/05/03
Summary: MS Still Integrating Ideas  solprovider | 11/03/03
Security Holes in .NET....?  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
W32.donut  Yen_z | 11/03/03
Thanks, Yen  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
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Thieves stealing from thieves.  vdraken | 11/03/03
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Make that 2005  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
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Sure..  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
Interesting....  Patrick Jones | 11/03/03
Nothing too out of the ordinary  Delaware Boy | 11/03/03
Thanks..  Patrick Jones | 11/03/03
Stuff  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
This is a subject  Patrick Jones | 11/03/03
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MS to use PPC in Xbox  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
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My Stats...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
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John's BS  Rick_K | 11/03/03
Read the whole tree  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/04/03
Only when you start...  Rick_K | 11/04/03
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Don't stop now  Mack DaNife | 11/04/03
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TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE?  Rick_K | 11/04/03
More PR vaporware stories  NoB$ | 11/03/03
I've been here too long  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
Unusually frank.  Fred Fredrickson | 11/04/03
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Now behave  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
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2005...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
Really?  tic swayback | 11/03/03
That's Mary Jo's opinion  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 11/03/03
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Considering MS's record.  Rick_K | 11/04/03
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Too much fun when John writes for ZDNet  Richard Flude | 11/04/03
WinFS  kieran@... | 11/05/03
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