Thursday, February 01, 2007

Vista launched - flaws disclosed

The much awaited Vista was launched on Jan 30 and according to Mr.Gates, it marks a new era for multimedia computing. But, Vista users will have to be careful while playing audio files since it could potentially execute commands if a user has turned the speech recognition feature ON. This flaw has been confirmed by MS and other Security researchers. Read more..
Though Vista might look shiny and score well on Security tests, I still prefer working on fedora which helps me actually look under the hood. It is sometimes hard to get drivers / applications / services but then it is an interesting challenge to face and get things running.

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