ROB MCCART wrote:
>> Windows NT's kernel is pretty solid, it's all the userland apps, and
>> core services are the biggest issue, that and security settings along with
>> some bonehead decisions from MS's higher ups that tended to cause many of
>> the issues...
> 
> They want a lot of outside access or automated functions built
> in for those who know "Start Button" and not much else.
> It makes it very user friendly but also very vulnerable to
> outside attacks.

Not so much, the RPC holes, for example, are intentional, and are usefull
features, as is the Messenger Service, and SMB(Windows Networking), however, 
these are all usefull in business, and network environments, and belong behind 
a firewall... not as a default in the consumer version... the XP SP2 goes a 
good ways to helping this, making the firewall on by default.

> Plus "The Powers That Be" want a whole lot more direct access
> to your system to check for licencing and such which requires
> other open doors..

Not so much as you may think... they don't want it to be "impossible" to
pirate, just hard enough to prevent the casual user from doing it...

They want to keep their market share as much as anything else, it's just
if they *can* get another $150 from someone who can no longer update, they 
will... there are those that will *never* pay for windows, but are willing to 
run it... MS want's to keep these people, as much as they want the money from 
those casual copiers... (fair use discussions aside)...

I'm more concerned about the DRM & High Def. limitations in Windows Vista, it 
pretty much just pisses me off all around..

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