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In a blog posting, Microsoft notes that it is not just Internet Explorer that can be disabled. In fact, many Windows components can be disabled, should one so choose.
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That is a huge attack surface and given that the majority of computer users don;t know how to shut them off much less what a port is, this is a huge danger.
FYI ...
On netbooks or systems with SSD boot drives, every gigabyte matters. I'd rather not have any of the space on my 32GB Intel X25-E taken up with garbage I don't need or want. The installer should have an option to strip all those components out at install time, as well as unnecessary localizations (I don't think I will ever use the Amharic user interface on my desktop, thank you very much).
I was terribly disappointed thus far in not only does it carry the same baggage as Vista but it even has trouble running applications that are VISTA CERTIFIED. I was stunned.
As one who has been in IT long enough to remember that joke called Windows Millennium Edition I would have figured MSFT would have learned from that and never made a mistake like that again.
I guess not.
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- I am a beta tester that was expecting a radically revamped corporate friendly product that had a higher level of backwards compatibility with existing applications and hardware with more reasonable licensing procedures.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (110 Comments)I was terribly disappointed thus far in not only does it carry the same baggage as Vista but it even has trouble running applications that are VISTA CERTIFIED. I was stunned.
As one who has been in IT long enough to remember that joke called Windows Millennium Edition I would have figured MSFT would have learned from that and never made a mistake like that again.
I guess not.