If I fitted my house with locks which failed so miserably at preventing
a break-in, beyond any insurance claim I'd certainly consider suing
the lock maker. What we need one of these days is a person/company to
sue MS (or class action) to force them to make operating systems
with far better security by default. The security mess known as Windows
has been plodding along for years & years, costing individuals & corps
enormous sums every year in wasted time, resources, etc., yet nothing
seems to change. Instead, blame & responsibility is placed upon the
user wrt to visited sites, handling emails, downloads, etc. - an approach
which means the security 'effort' is replicated billions of times over and
over again with no improvement in the base system. The focus is
entirely at the wrong end of the scale; a decently written OS shouldn't
be such a security nightmare in the first place, but because winblows
is standard, nobody seems to care, it's regarded as normal, an attitude
found nowhere else in modern consumer tech. If an ordinary consumer
tells a computer shop owner that their PC has a virus problem, they are
told that's a normal risk; same response for a bug-related BSOD or other
Windows issue. When are we going to say enough is enough and force
the responsibility back onto MS?
I quite like Win7 in general terms, but it's security aspects are absolute
junk compared to the 15-year-old UNIX box I also use.
I have no interest in Win8; I only use desktops & thus refuse to be treated
like a child by being forced to use a gesture-focused interface more suited
to a slate & chalk era.
Ian.