RE: Experiences with VISTA

Hi, Paul:

I'm only concerned with the effects of a rollout of the released OS to our 
users here, specifically keeping Wintronix and iSeries Access working. 
Thankfully our network admin is dragging his feet, with cleats on [grin].

It is a poorly kept secret that late alpha builds of what is now Vista 
"somehow" escaped Redmond. I'm not sure, but I'd be surprised if the beta 
itself didn't pop up somewhere ahead of schedule. So when the beta was 
officially released, you had about 2,000 slavering hackers with exploits 
already in the cyber equivalent of shrink-wrap. It might as well have been 
a track meet.

Only the latency of the 'Net, and the desire of the most 
notorious/accomplished in the hacker community to maintain street cred 
(which required quick confirming tests), made it take as long as 17 
minutes.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/18/2007 07:28:35 PM:

Always remember that when the Vista beta was released last summer that 

it

only took 17 minutes before the first security hack was announced.

Paul Nelson

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