At 7:11 PM -0400 9/27/07, Steve Rigby wrote:
On Sep 27, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Paul Meyer wrote:
Rather than being "consumer driven"
changes in software have always been largely done over the objections
of the user base. IMHO (List, am I right?)
I think you are pretty much right.
And yet, a lot of Microsoft's difficulties stem from an apparent
mandate to "not break anything, no matter how old." In other words,
backwards compatibility for user-developed applications (usually
corporate; the guys who buy thousands and thousands of copies). That
is why only the 64-bit version of Vista has the security really
screwed down tight. If they did that in the 32-bit version, it would
break too many things.
That's my impression, from listening to Steve Gibson's Security Now podcasts.
--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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