Microsoft in 64-bit Vista lockdown Microsoft will operate 64-bit versions of Windows Vista as a tabernacle, with the kernel as the holy of holies, where only its own high priests of security may venture. There's going to be a kybosh on naughty developers mucking about with the 64-bit kernel; patching will be banned. McAfee and others seem to have already …
Of course, the biggest loser here is the poor consumer.
Security through obscurity doesn't work -- MS ought to know by now.
By "blackboxing" the Vista64 kernel MS has just thrown down the challenge to every blackhatter out there - and tying the security industry's hands behind their backs.
Who gets to deal with the fallout, the popups, the adware, the keyloggers, the viruses, the blacklisting for zombiespamming ?
The poor consumer.
I pity MS - they finally had a serious chance at becoming respectable, and offering a serious desktop operating system - but instead, their desire for total ironfisted control and bundling as much mediocre apps to cover up for their own coding failures lost them their chance.
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