Quote - A lot of recent Microsoft "upgrades" have been on the shitty side. Excel was a bit shitty already, but 2008 is very shitty. I imagine that IE 8 will probably require that you use 3 separate sessions each time you want to type a URL, and then you'll have to log in as admin before you're actually allowed to visit that URL you just typed. Then you'll have to approve each and every HTML tag on the page as it loads.

This new security initiative is known as the Dynamic Integrated Administration for Local User Protection - note that this may result in the false perception that one's internet connection is slow. Also, starting with Windows Avanté, there will be a new file system, the Finite Linked Object Protection/Private Interface Execution system, which will use an advanced magnetic drive to ensure that sensitive files do not last long enough for criminals (or anyone else) to use them after a couple of days.

Lol - well, Windows has taken quite a beating about the fact that their OS is rather insecure when compared to others such as Linux, of course that insecurity has also been one of there biggest selling points since it provides much easier installation of programs and other operations.  However I think, at least from what I read, that Vista apparently went too far in the other direction - a bit of an overcompensation from what I understand.

Not sure how much good the new file system would do to be honest, I guess it might come in handy if your laptop was stolen, and you kept a bunch of sensitive info on your laptop, but barring that I just don't see that as being a really useful feature for most, in fact it sounds to me like it's probably going to cause a lot more problems then it actually solves - just hope they don't do something really stupid and turn it on by default.

But with any luck by that point the only windows box left in the house will be the wife's laptop, I'm hoping that I'll be able to go full Linux on all the desktops. 

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...