[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Dave Arbogast wrote:

> Modular so they can keep using code from past versions ?  Remember the 
> RPC flaw in XP ? 2 months before it was reported publicly I was in 
> Richmond talking with the product team (developers and managers)

Do you, by chance, mean Redmond?

> directly about security. The said to my fact the IP stack and the RPC 
> code was all new in XP....  when the exploit was reported, guess what ? 
> Some of the code for RPC in XP was the same all the way back to NT 3.51
> 
> They have not had a clean sheet design with all new code in more than 10 
> year. I doubt they'll change now.
> 
> -dave