Comments on: Microsoft Vista and the Wow http://www.simplestation.com/journal/the-wow-doesnt-start-now/ A place for our creative musings on web-design, technology, and life. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: man they look like a happy bunch! http://www.simplestation.com/journal/the-wow-doesnt-start-now/#comment-17 man they look like a happy bunch! Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:39 +0000 http://www.simplestation.com/journal/the-wow-doesnt-start-now/#comment-17 as a mac user i was very entertained during my last trip to Redmond to the MS campus for a meeting. while waiting for my contact i read an internal MS newsletter. they were hacking on Vista big time. at that time, only one of the three legs Vista was to be built on were still included in the final build. the other two had been scrapped and the third one was being reworked, again, much to the dismay of the writer. as a mac user i was very entertained during my last trip to Redmond to the MS campus for a meeting. while waiting for my contact i read an internal MS newsletter. they were hacking on Vista big time. at that time, only one of the three legs Vista was to be built on were still included in the final build. the other two had been scrapped and the third one was being reworked, again, much to the dismay of the writer.

]]> By: Stuart http://www.simplestation.com/journal/the-wow-doesnt-start-now/#comment-18 Stuart Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:03:03 +0000 http://www.simplestation.com/journal/the-wow-doesnt-start-now/#comment-18 I've been listening to Paul Thurott talk about Windows Vista on his podcast Windows Weekly, and the more he talks about it, the more I find myself shuddering. They rewrote the network stack from scratch! What was a well seasoned and reasonably secure stack is now back to Stage 1. I think I even remember him talking about how exploits have already been found in what is supposed to be "Microsoft's Most Secure Operating System". What I'd like to know is.... what were the other two legs? I’ve been listening to Paul Thurott talk about Windows Vista on his podcast Windows Weekly, and the more he talks about it, the more I find myself shuddering. They rewrote the network stack from scratch! What was a well seasoned and reasonably secure stack is now back to Stage 1. I think I even remember him talking about how exploits have already been found in what is supposed to be “Microsoft’s Most Secure Operating System”.

What I’d like to know is…. what were the other two legs?

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