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Originally Posted by Krazy_About_Technology
^^Pardon Sir, but is this not the case with Linux?
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No it is not. Say I have logged in with the default user created during OS installation. Now a random file is on USB key and tries to execute. Linux will run it as normal user without any admin rights. Unless I prefix it intentionally with sudo or su -c or gksudo it is given no root privileges. If I don't, the executable can very well be run with normal privileges.
Now if the same happens in Vista, it gives a simple prompt, which user would anyway be trained to allow (coz any new exe when tried to run in Vista will prompt you). The moment he clicks allow it goes into admin mode and can destroy any part of system. Also there is no way the executable can just run with normal privileges. It is either full privilege or no execution.
Anyway this thread is about scalability and let's stop security discussion here lest the thread gets locked up.
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Originally Posted by iMav
LOL! If they do something, it doesn't matter, but there are other OSs that do it. And just 'coz you say it doesn't matter, we are supposed to accept it and start saying why is Windows 7 scalable to 256 cores, hey Sinofsky, some chandru.in said it doesn't matter why are doing it then?
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Let them do it. I don't hate if Windows improves. But the hype is just too much than it deserves.