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If you would have read two posts down a better explanation of my statement was given. I'm sorry for the inaccuracy in my first post about this.
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20th August 2006, 11:39 | #104 | Link | |
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qt can play xvid in mp4 as well, when encode was done with some care
my old note says: - no bframes - only h263 quantization allowed - simply put: nothing from "advanced simple profile" - like qpel, ect... of course iam sure there is no way to play bastardized avi called divx, why would there be one anyway? --- back on topic, quoted: Quote:
This is the fact, and you don't need to really study some sort of statistic to get there...., however in some other thread it is quite clear that some people do not understand the danger and also stupidity included in such monopolistic approach. I was told by such person that ms uses a 'special/not for normal users' encoding software for bigger studios which is imho another nice case to open for any decent Commission. Last edited by smok3; 20th August 2006 at 12:02. |
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So now you make me quote the other part of my post. It's nice people actually read here...
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The firewall is weak too, only one way. Why bundeling things if they are weak and incomplete?
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Didn't MS have plans for a virus scanner a while ago?
It'd greatly amuse me if MS actually got it running decently and then the courts told them to remove that too
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What exactly do you want? Every microsoft feature to come with a list of competitors' products that you can buy if you need more features or want non-microsoft?
smok3, um, not-for-consumers is a perfectly legal business model for high-end products, or hundreds of companies would get shut down overnight. |
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If Windows shipped with a firewall superior to any other firewall product on the market - don't you think Symantec, McAfee, Zone Labs, F-Secure and others might find that, ummm, "abuse of dominant market position". At least this way you can say, "Sure, XP has a firewall, but if you want the best protection, you should get XYZ...", the same way you can argue that your new Honda Civic needs a brand new Sony CD-MP3 player because its stock one is "just OK". I really don't understand this conflicting attitude where people want MS to ship an OS with every feature superior to anything currently available on the market, yet they complain whenever a particular area of the software market gets cornered due to this very same practice. You have to understand that for every person that complains because Windows doesn't come with an integrated RSS reader or Podcasting solution, there will be another person that will complain about the very same feature being integrated into the OS. How can any company win that battle? |
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Does that happen when running as a normal, non-admin user? If not, then you forgot the first rule of computer security: If untrusted code is running in a priveledged account, it can do anything it wants, you've already given up all security. No checkbox can do more than slow its creator down while he figures out how to bypass it.
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Do you run in "normal, non-admin user"? Under NT it's not viable. Most software require to be run as admin, else all you get is My Documents
I'd love a linux-like desktop, where you have to enter root password to do system modifications, while in user mode. So you ahve the protection AND the power at the same time
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Runas works, and tools exist to automatically prompt for runas instead of immediately failing whenever you perform a security-limited action.
It's actually getting easier as the years go on to run all but a few packages as non-admin, though it's still easier for me to regularly use 2 different accounts depending on what I need. (I'm willing to hunt down the registry permissions and even make appcompat shims for some vital software, like quickbooks for work, but for some things it's just less annoying to use switch user.) |
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