[mdlug] Cracks in the Evil Empire

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Joseph Vartanian wrote:

> *  The software firewall is now bi-directional
> *  IPSec and domain isolation are now integrated into the firewall
> *  IE now runs in Protected mode (sandboxed)
> *  Network Access Protection (NAP) allows admins check a machine's
> software for compliance, and only allow access to resources for
> compliant machines, or get non-compliant machine up to compliance.
> *  New image format, WIM, allows for nondestructive and
> hardware-agnostic image based OS deployment
> *  WIM images can be maintained offline (no need to restore them,
> modify them, and create new images like before)
> *  Lot and lots of new Group Policies settings.  I think Microsoft
> said they had over 700 new ones.  For those who don't know what Group
> Policies are, just know that 700 new ones is a huge thing.
> *  Powershell (yes, it's a Unix shell knockoff)
> *  Most admin tasks that used to be don't with the GUI only can now
> also be done via command like (yes, Unix again)
> *  New or improved diagnostics tools
> *  Improved auditing.  For example, Vista can forward critical audit
> data to a central location

I think we know now what MS paid SCO for. So much of this sounds like 
stuff that had been packaged as updates to SCOs legacy UNIX crap.