[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Dave Arbogast]

What about printing? Do you still have to be admin to install a network 
printer? Last I heard yes...  It really annoys me that they don't see a 
printer as any other non authenticated resource, like browsing a web 
site !!!

-dave

Kevin Jeffrey Smith wrote:

> I decided to install Vista Business as a lark on my main desktop last 
> week - figured I'd try it before I pass judgment on it. I was 
> impressed with the install process - very painless. I thought the UAC, 
> as much as people love to make fun of it, might make non-technical 
> end-users think twice before installing stuff at random (I know this 
> is a pipe dream, but hey). A lot of the configuration options in 
> Control Panel seem to be a little more logical in their 
> location/naming, hardware driver installs seem pretty painless for the 
> most part, etc.
>
> However, I was shocked at how sluggish it was without turning off a 
> ton of features. Granted, my rig is no God Box (2.6 GHz P4, 1 GB RAM, 
> 256 MB GeForce 5500FX vid card) and Vista is supposedly optimized for 
> newer hardware, but I've had to disable every visual effect, System 
> Restore, remove unnecessary features from the OS, etc. to get this 
> thing to perform respectably on my hardware (with all drivers, etc.)
>
> As others have pointed out - it's a interesting step in the right 
> direction.
>
> -KJS
>
> On 6/27/07, Dan Pritts < danno at umich.edu <mailto:danno at umich.edu>> wrote:
>
>     > >
>     > > > 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
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