Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC
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| The most controversial aspect of Watson's comments all center around
| the idea that Microsoft is a leader with UAC, and that other OSes
| should follow suit. UAC is a cousin of myriad "superuser" process
| elevation strategies, which Mac OS X and all flavors of Linux
| already enjoy. The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party
| with their Microsoftized version of sudo. That's really what UAC
| is, after all: sudo with a fancy display mechanism (to make it hard
| to spoof) and extra monitoring to pick up on "suspicious" behavior.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070501-microsoft-uac-approach-is-so-good-other-oses-should-follow-suit.html
http://tinyurl.com/yw9ose
Not the first time they claim to have innovated something which they imitated
(poorly).
Microsoft plays up plan to nobble non-genuine Vista
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| Here's why: "New technology in genuine Windows Vista detects
| and will alter the user experience on non-genuine versions by
| disabling enhanced features and restricting non-security
| downloads and updates."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39314
More botnets.
Yesterday:
Microsoft's New Validation Policy
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| Now Microsoft has taken authentication of the Microsoft Validation
| to a whole new level. Starting now, they will be checking your
| operating system every month.
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http://www.mypcpros.com/computer-blog/2007/5/1/microsofts-new-validation-policy.html
WGA - The "A" stands for Advertisments
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| This is just lame. Using WGA as a marketing stream is bad enough, I
| thought this was about making sure that the customer is running a
| genuine copy of Windows, but running untargeted ads is worse still
| because this is just going to confuse and irritate customers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=380
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