Spyware-killing Vista could take out rivals
By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: March 17, 2006, 4:00 AM PST

There's a software product coming that could demote spyware from a security priority to an afterthought: Windows Vista.

Spyware has become a serious security problem for users of Microsoft's operating system over the past years, giving rise to a host of third-party tools to fight the insidious software. But perhaps the best defensive program has yet to ship, some analysts believe.

Some analysts believe that could be the final nail in the coffin for companies that specialize in anti-spyware products.

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Microsoft later this year plans to release Windows Vista, the long-awaited successor to Windows XP. The operating system is being designed to shut the door on spyware. It will introduces important changes at the heart of the operating system, as well as to Internet Explorer, and include Windows Defender, an anti-spyware tool.

"The spyware threat will definitely shrink or shrivel" as Vista gets adopted, said John Pescatore, an analyst with Gartner. "We got a handle on spam. It still gets through, but it is such a small percentage now, we know how to deal with what gets through. That same thing will happen to spyware. It will be under control."

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Yeah, and Windows Vista will shut the door on other things too, such as the user.

Windows Vista will have a feature they call PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path, Output Method).
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVP-OPM
It makes, so that if you try to play a movie on your computer, which they deem you're not allowed to, then it shuts off your monitor or video output.

It also has PVP-UAB (Protected Video Path, User-Accessible Bus)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVP-UAB
Which when you play the movie it will use cryptography while it process the data and pass it around to prevent you from ripping/recording the movie.

It will heavily rely on DRM (Digital rights management, or perhaps more accurately, Digital restriction management).
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management


In Windows Vista, you arent you to be served, what is to be served is to movie industry and recording companies who produces media. You, the user are considered a threat.

Also, before OpenGL and DirectX existed side-by-side, now they layered DirectX under OpenGL to try make OpenGL slower and make game developers stop use OpenGL and use DirectX more.
OpenGL is an open specification and it is used on many other platforms such as Linux, Mac, BSD, etc, etc. DirectX is propiertary and closed, they want developers to use that so that they wont be able to port games to other operating systems.
Microsoft loves its dirty monopoly and will do everything to maintain and keep on abusing it.

Hmm. I don't know too much about Windows Vista but it seems like there should be a fine line between, as you say, controlling the user's actions and the user controlling the machine they bought and paid for.

I skimmed over the article about spyware and Vista... seems a little hypey. But I'll be glad if they really do start cracking down on spyware.... BTW, when is Vista due out?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4831374.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4832224.stm

WINDOWS FOR LIFE, DOWN WITH *NIX!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista



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