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Microsoft finishes work on Windows Vista has word that Microsoft's new
operating system has been deemed ready for prime time, and is due in stores on
January 30: SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. finished work Wednesday on its
long-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and said the software would be
broadly available Jan. 30.
The announcement means Microsoft will meet — just barely — its revised goal of
putting Vista in consumers' hands in the first month of 2007.
Windows Vista's code was released midmorning Wednesday to manufacturing — a step
that allows the company to begin making the copies that will be distributed with
PCs and sold at stores, said Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft division
that includes Windows, in a conference.
"This is a good day," Allchin said.
Microsoft had previously said it would release Vista to big business clients at
an event at the Nasdaq Stock Market on Nov. 30, and Allchin reiterated Wednesday
that corporations who buy Windows licenses in bulk will get the new system this
month. That's also in keeping with the company's revised release schedule.
The release will be the first major upgrade in more than five years to the
operating system that powers most of the world's personal computers. Vista
boasts improved graphics, more effective tools for finding documents, pictures
and other items on personal computers, and a new Internet browser, among other
changes.
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Nov 11, 2006, 00:08 |
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Tell me, have you ever worked in an eviroment where the average user is a complete moron?
The reason why they can't install shit, is because, well - THEY DO INSTALL SHIT! And you don't want to infect you corporate network with shit.
Besides the average use have the tools already installed to do their work. They don't need other stuff, if they do, the admin will do it.
Yes I have. Frequently. I've been in support and admin for over 12 years. What you say is true. However, in 95% of the companies that I worked for, users wound up still installing everything they wanted, either because they got admin passwords, or got local admin, or got "temporary admin" or whatever.
But you're kind of missing the point. The reason everyone at home runs in admin is because you can't do shit as a user. If you allow a user to install software into a USER DESIGNATED AREA, and actually build your OS around that UDA so that while they CAN install software, it CANNOT affect your critical system files, your registry beyond the designated area, etc, realistically they wouldn't be able to fuck up all that much.
And in the end, shrug, if a user fucks up, pop in the Ghost disk and ten minutes later they're back up and running.
I also seriously doubt that that was the reason MS had such a monstrous discrepancy between user and admin where rights were concerned.
(and yes, I'm aware of the existence of the power user.)
Creston
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