Re: [Rival] Vista's Latest Security Issues, Customer Backlash

On Sep 25, 3:47 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com>
wrote:
> Deceptive file names under Vista
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> | Attackers can use Unicode character codes under Windows Vista to conceal
> | filenames and filename extensions. A demonstration by Max Ried makes an
> | executable screen-saver file (.scr) look like a harmless image (.jpg).
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> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/96498
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> Filenames define action/handler. A recipe for disaster.
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> Vista Ultimate buyers fume over missing Extras
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> | "The truth is, customers are getting near to nothing [from Extras]," Zheng
> | said Sunday.
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> http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;676914797
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> "Extra" for "extra ripoff".
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> Related:
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> Vista Ultimate users will have to wait for "extras"
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> | Tomorrow is the beginning of the fall and end of summer 2007. That means time
> | is running out for Microsoft's promise to release new extras to Vista
> | Ultimate users.
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> http://zmolklife.com/ejoh/2007/09/21...rs-will-have-t...
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> The Death of Windows Vista Extras
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> | The bottom line is that the Ultimate Extras team has gone underground.
> | Microsoft cannot expect Ultimate users to survive on a preview of Windows
> | DreamScene with an outdated Content Pack and two Windows Vista wallpapers.
> | For $399, Microsoft has to cough up palpable results.
> |
> | But so far, all is dead on the Ultimate Extras front. Even the blog went
> | quiet after mid March, and I have a feeling that silence from the Ultimate
> | Extras team is not what Ultimate users want to "hear."
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> http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-D...ta-Extras-5730...
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> Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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> | Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
> | as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
> | -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
> | this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action/...url.com/2u6gzq

This is OFF TOPIC for comp.os.linux.advocacy Roy Schestowitz.
It belongs in a Vista group!

Please don't crosspost.