Vista or Not

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Originally Posted by NoBoxes

From what I've read by tech reporters, Vista is supposed to address most of the security issues in XP. ... I've not seen anything on the heuristic aspects of its security features though.

Software development kit updates are chock full of new procedures modified for security reasons. Some features are only Vista compatible. For example, any string function that can access memory location outside of that string has been modified so that string overruns are not possible. Apparently an order two years ago from Bill Gates to stop and totally rewrite Vista for security caused most everything to change. That means everything would be rewritten with new and secure procedures and other changes to legacy code.

Vista probably will have some teething problems only because it involved rewrite or reassessment of virtually everything inside Windows. That does not mean Vista will be a reliability disaster since every new OS suffered from those same speculations.

But like each new version of Windows (and like Apple's OSX), new software will make new demands on hardware. That has always been a good thing once we eliminate doomsday hype.