[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Dan Pritts]

> >
> > > A lot of people have been saying that Vista is just XP with a pretty
> > > new interface.  I've even seen several IT folks at work saying that.
> > > This is wrong.  There are many dramatic changes in Vista under the
> > > hood, but most of them aren't obvious to your typical user.
> >
> >  Can you name some of them? I'm not aware of many beyond the user interface
> > stuff.

I believe that they changed the architecture so that display drivers
(and presumably some other device drivers but I don't know for sure)
no longer run in kernel space.  This is a huge win compared to XP for
security and reliability.

They've also vastly improved their development methodology w/r/t
security; many of the benefits of this showed up with XP SP2 but
this is the first full release under the new regime.  Not that this
solves all problems but it was a huge step in the right direction.

tnx
danno