JGuru
Wise Old Owl
Microsoft earlier said that it would ship Vista in the middle of 2006.
We have almost neared the middle of 2006 and they say that Vista
would be ready by 2007!! You may ask why.
There are more reasons for the delay.
Any product before it's release should go through thorough testing,
Beta 1, and Beta 2. And after all the glitches are fixed they should
ship the product.
1) Vista is in Beta 2 right now, and early testers say that there are
a few snags like driver and application compatibility issues.
2) Microsoft wants Vista to be more secure. So they are working hard
to fix lot of vulnerabilities like buffer-overflow and others. To address
buffer-overflow they have quietly fitted the feature called 'ASLR'.
ASLR stands for Address Space Layout Randomization, they borrowed
this from the Open-source World!!
3) Also, since most of the problems arise in Windows under a administrator
account. They want to make the default account as limited account to
minimize security risks.
4) To make the data in the PCs more secure Vista will come with Bitlocker
an encryption tool that encrypts all the data in the harddisk. Bitlocker
would be available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions.
So even if your harddisk falls on the wrong hands , they won't be able to
steal any data from it.
To read more click the link below:
*www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967354,00.asp
We have almost neared the middle of 2006 and they say that Vista
would be ready by 2007!! You may ask why.
There are more reasons for the delay.
Any product before it's release should go through thorough testing,
Beta 1, and Beta 2. And after all the glitches are fixed they should
ship the product.
1) Vista is in Beta 2 right now, and early testers say that there are
a few snags like driver and application compatibility issues.
2) Microsoft wants Vista to be more secure. So they are working hard
to fix lot of vulnerabilities like buffer-overflow and others. To address
buffer-overflow they have quietly fitted the feature called 'ASLR'.
ASLR stands for Address Space Layout Randomization, they borrowed
this from the Open-source World!!
3) Also, since most of the problems arise in Windows under a administrator
account. They want to make the default account as limited account to
minimize security risks.
4) To make the data in the PCs more secure Vista will come with Bitlocker
an encryption tool that encrypts all the data in the harddisk. Bitlocker
would be available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions.
So even if your harddisk falls on the wrong hands , they won't be able to
steal any data from it.
To read more click the link below:
*www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967354,00.asp
