RE: How Secure is Windows, Really?

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:59 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: How Secure is Windows, Really?

While I realize there's a certain amount of "preaching to the choir" in this
particular email, I still think that it's important to end the year with a
real world look at the security of Windows.

here is Jim Allchin, certified very smart guy, talking about Vista. As I recall 
from watching the interview last month, he spends a lot of time addressing 
Vista security. 

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=254997

( are there any IBM execs with anything close to the technical knowledge and 
experience of MSFT execs? )

as I understand it, Vista is the first Windows desktop OS that users have no 
need to login as administrator.  Which theoretically is a big deal because code 
run by guest type users via email viruses cant trash the system like they can 
when the user is logged in with administrator rights.

-Steve