[Malvern] MS Vista

[Stuart Parkington]

Guy Inchbald wrote:
> 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.
> 

I believe that M$ customers with Volume License agreements can run their 
own authorization service on their own internal networks, thus negating 
the need to connect them directly to M$.

Stuart

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