[Malvern] MS Vista

[Guy Inchbald]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:45:39, Chris Eilbeck <chris at hyperspace.org.uk> 
wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:17:57PM +0000, Andrew Morris wrote:
>> Vista has /no/ manual validation procedure, it can only be validated after
>> install, on-line. This is a primary security point that M$ have been
>> harping on.
>>
>> So how would any standalone, non-Internet system, cope? And before you
>> ask, I can think of two such systems - the new services pay system created
>> by EDS for the RAF-ARMY-NAVY - which is totally enclosed and has no
>> outside network connection; and the (sssh!) non-existent standalone email
>> system that is (not) installed in Downing Street. There are potentially
>> many others.
>>
>> Shooting-oneself-in-corporate-foot time?
>
>There are probably ways and means for "special" customers.  Having said
>that, systems like that are probably being shipped on NT3.51 still knowing
>how long these things take to develop.

Several large organizations I know still maintain airgaps between 
critical systems and the Internet. These folk form a large enough 
pressure group that MS had to back-somersault on mandatory online 
registration when they launched XP (or was it W2K? I forget - so many 
releases, so much chaos). I expect Vista will follow suit once enough 
corporate dupes start spending their FY07-08 IT budgets.

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Cheers,
Guy