KJKHyperion wrote:
Wesley Parish wrote:
"insecure-by-inattention" - by that I mean software that must run as super-user or otherwise (otherstupidly) it won't run at all.
read all you can find on the new security features in Windows Vista. The security model has been enhanced with various forms of Mandatory Access Control - among the many of them, the fact that all users (except System, i.e. services) are entirely powerless by default, even administrators, and a reauthentication is required every time privileges are needed (the user experience is pretty much identical to MacOSX) - and the application compatibility layer has been enhanced to the point it now fully implements a virtual filesystem view and a virtual registry view.
Are you saying that with Vista it's possible to give a program its own virtual view of the system which it can read and modify to its heart's content without affecting other programs? That would be simply divine.