[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Joseph Vartanian]

On 6/27/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joseph Vartanian
>
> > *  The software firewall is now bi-directional
> > *  IPSec and domain isolation are now integrated into the firewall
> > *  IE now runs in Protected mode (sandboxed)
>
>  Somewhat better security out of the box, okay. I don't see much that couldn't
> be done with 3rd-party stuff before, though. All the rest that you mention are
> really only useful for corporate management. End users won't care about that
> stuff. Still surprising that it took that long just to get that stuff.

You're right.  While this stuff is important to IT people, most users
wouldn't care.  But lets be completely honest here.  End users want to
be able to browse the web, listen to music, watch videos, type a few
documents, chat with their 5,000 myspace friends, and do it all with a
pretty GUI.  Everything else only matters to people like us.

If you look at it that way then Vista, OSX and various Linux distros
already have everything they need in an OS.  No matter what anybody
adds to an OS, it doesn't matter.  So now can somebody name anything
in Vista that most end users really need that MS didn't already give
them?  Same goes for Linux...what does Ubuntu lack that end users
really need?  Nothing.  Good marketing just makes end users just want
more features that they'll never use.

And in reality, many companies are reluctant to go with Vista because
they think it's too different for their employees (training issues).
What if MS had made even more changes.

-Joseph