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Performance drain: The first public perception test of the Windows 7 era

Source: BetaNews.Com

Nov 04, 2009

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The key selling point for Windows 7, as emphasized in a concerted advertising campaign that stretches across both TV and the Web, is that it's leaner, simpler, and faster. It doesn't have to complete the phrase "faster than..." because we all know how to complete that phrase. Microsoft's bet for Windows 7 is that users smart enough to complete that phrase, care.

So if some of the comments Betanews has been receiving about Internet Explorer's recent problems being a non-event, or a "YAWN," really did reflect reality, then Microsoft has already lost the bet.

The security problem revealed last July at the Black Hat conference could be considered old but also latent -- it has not been exploited yet, and only recently have smarter folks looking for ways to improve security architecture shed light on it. It's a problem with how software components trade off objects of data in memory when their types are indeterminate, using a structure called variant. The receiving component learns about the variant's type through a structure that's p

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