My users don't have admin rights, elevated privileges via the logon script.

You are totally correct in saying that Office Web components won't be affected, I was just replying to the previous poster. Still anyone worth their weight as an admin wouldn't install Office Web components on anything.

You'd be surprised how many people do it. In fact so many people do it where I work that I put a reghack in the logon script to make it so that all XLS files are opened with excel and not IE.

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.Sheet.8\BrowserFlags",00000008,"REG_DWORD"

I didn't put it in place for this vulnerability though, just because a lot of people use macros and don't know how to save as.

He'll also wake up alone every morning...

Forget the moon. Mars is where it's at.

You can't be serious.. Just because you don't leave your padded room doesn't mean others don't.

It really makes me sick that we live in this country and we are not free to play and view what we want. It's the bloody attorney general of SA that is holding back the R18+ rating for games. I'd like to know if there is anything we can do about this apart from wait for the wanker to loose the next election. I don't see how it's not a majority vote..

Still the government can try all they like but they are not going to stop people from downloading "illegal" material, it's like trying to stop people from smoking, you can try but it isn't going to stop the most devoted, and those are the people that will just burn a disk and give it to all their mates...

These people just don't know how the internet works. There is always another way round. Idiots.

It looks promising but having just had to use it to try and resolve a problem with a friends ipod and had problems with crashing and really slow performance on a c2d 2.4ghz and 2gigs of ram.. I prefer to use Rhythmbox, I like the retro look..

Just a few random searches will prove that google brings back more relevant results. I'm actually surprised people are still talking about it.

Maybe I have a different opinion on what budget is.. Less than $100USD.. Here I was thinking that I'd read a hardware review on slashdot that may actually be useful to me. Alas no.

As long as the Gimp guys aren't going to change can we make OO look like Gimp?

Thousands of years of evolution is better than a pair of shoes... Crazy talk!

If you don't want people talking to you perhaps you should stay in your basement?

My sentiments exactly. I use computers all day at work, mostly Windows desktops and servers but a few Linux servers hidden around the place for important tasks. When I get home from work I don't want to tinker around with my machine I want it to just do it's thing. I use Ubuntu on my laptop and it just works, quite literally. It's been ready for the desktop for ages, for general document creation, web browsing, wireless, printers, file sharing, you name it, everything a normal user including myself would do is easily attainable using Ubuntu.

To think that personal computing is going to be taken over by cloud computing and smartphones, this guy obviously hasn't used a smartphone and doesn't give a crap about who has access to his data with cloud computing.. This is totally crazy talk from someone that is supposed to know about these kinds of things. I think he needs to get checked in to a mental asylum.

LOL! Best movie ever! Thanks guys for making my day.