Blast from the past | Windows Vista Security

[Ceyfer √]

LAS VEGAS--It's easy now to look back at Microsoft's Windows Vista and berate the company for the operating system's shortcomings, but the truth is far more complex, according to one security researcher. At the second day of the annual Black Hat conference here, Chris Paget, chief hacker at the security company Recursion Ventures, discussed her independent contracting work for Microsoft on Vista prior to its release for the first time. Before Recursion took on the contract, all members of the team that worked on Vista were made to sign non-disclosure agreements that took five years to expire.

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[hellnoire]

Too bad it was completely unstable in my experience and they never made it any better (the driver writers, that is).

[safeguy]

Unfortunately, not everyone tries to utilize it. I wouldn't blame them though...

[Bearcat]

Made the jump straight from XP to 7, so never got to try Vista out. I learned the hard way with Millenium to adopt a wait and see attitude toward new Windows OS, before diving head first into them.

[sm1]

I am a happy vista user

[Student26]

An interesting look at windows security. Though they get a bad rep interms of security they made significant advancements forward and UAC manageable. Though I made the XP to 7 jump I have heard the horror stories. With as big of a change as upgrading an OS a wait and see approach is almost always better, especially with so many potential hardware configurations for Windows. As a cash strapped student - microsoft charges too much for me to not do my due dilligence.

[Raymond]

I am a happy vista user

You would be even happier if you switched to Windows 7 :P

[Bearcat]

You would be even happier if you switched to Windows 7 :P

Not only do you make a good point Raymond, but you also made me laugh. Something I really needed after a bad day at work.