Windows Chief Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus

LadyDarth writes "During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed."

right...

[quickpick]

that's like the annoying kid who's just asking to get his butt kicked in Bully...uh oh is that Jack Thompson??

windows? no antivirus?

[Anonymous Coward]

hahaha ho ho ho that's rich

i bet he still belives in santa claus

Also reported:

[Spazntwich]

Average user won't need Vista.

Hindsight being 20/20...

[Mad Merlin]

Who plans on bookmarking this story so they can laugh heartily at it again in a year?

bahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahah

[Bin_jammin]

no, stop, you're killing me, ahhahahahahahhahahhahahhahahhahhahhha

i have to concur

[circletimessquare]

i've been trying it out, and vista works for me, naked on the internet, without a single problem. in fact i would go so far as to say that V1AGRA HOOD1A GR0W Y0UR PEN1S L0W M0RTGAGE RATES L0SE WE1GHT MEET BARELY LEGAL TEENS SEE HARDC0RE SHEMALE ACTION

LIghtening fast

[luchaugh]

That only took... what... 15-odd years. Seeing will be believing.

Reminds me of what they said about Win95.

[QuantumG]

as I remember it was something like "you can't possibly write a virus for this operating system". Go get em boys.

Titanic

[fizzix]

Sounds a bit like some unsinkable ship.

all a ploy to make more $

[Anonymous Coward]

See, if you don't run av, then when you get infected, you'll have to reload vi$ta (which they only let you do once). Then, you'll have to buy another copy of said OS.

Brilliant marketing $cheme

Typical fundie...

[RetlawST]

This man would risk his child's life on a mere belief rather than give him some decent protection!!

Wait until he gets older...

[Arakageeta]

You'll need to start worrying when he turns 12 or 13. ;)

re: Hmm, and where have we heard this before

[LiquidCoooled]

rimcrazy
Yea..........and 640K will be plenty of memory..........
And the world will only need 4 computers...................
And no one would ever need a computer at home..............

Sheesh......where do they come up with this stuff?

A new one:

We will never have more than 16777215 comments.............

sounds familiar

[DarthTator]

He probably would have thought the lifeboats on the Titanic only got in the way too.

What he meant:

[Enoxice]

What he actually meant to say was that it won't need any antivirus...for the first 10 minutes. That's almost a two-fold increase from XP!

And my dog...

[frank_adrian314159]

... doesn't need to be walked if you don't mind it using your house as a toilet.

ObSimpsons

[Amazing Quantum Man]

<VOICE type="Nelson">
Ha ha!
</VOICE>

This is exactly why....

[Sergeant Beavis]

Microsoft needs to have drug testing.

monological discussions

[daniel23]

did I mention how /.'s new discussion system now reminds me of my wife, like, we're having a discussion and there is no way for me to successfully launch a reply.

oh wait, this is /. after all. A wife is, ehmm, ... well, - just forget it.

This reminds me of Ed Bradley's interview of MJ

[228e2]

Ed: . . . . So would u let your child sleep in the bed with a 46 year old man that has been accused of child molestation?
M. Jackson: Yes, I would

The parallels are scary . . . .

No, seriously,

[Go4Linux]

... and when his son becomes thirteen he will actually connect the computer to the network. ;)

Uh oh...

[shut_up_man]

This reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

Re:I've used XP SP2 without AV for years

[damsa]

don't visit porn sites or use P2P

Then what do you use the internet for?

Re:Hindsight being 20/20...

[hansg]

  Who plans on bookmarking this story so they can laugh heartily at it again in a year?

Don't need to. Just wait for it to be duped...

/Hans

Re:Titanic

[indifferent children]

Sounds a bit like some unsinkable ship.

Can't you just see Balmer standing in the bow: "I'm king of the world!" Of course, the iceberg this ship hits will have penguins on it.

Re:If users can...

[indifferent children]

Run a program which sends out mass mails...

You've stumbled across their secret plan. Vista won't run programs. 99.9% of Windows problems have been traced to 'users' running 'programs'.

Re:i have to concur

[soundonsound]

I don't know how ambiguous that is really. I did an informal survey of about 100 websites, and as far as I can tell, everyone is naked on the internet. Especially if they're 18 year old female coeds.

Re:I've used XP SP2 without AV for years

[R_Growler]

...and don't visit porn sites or use P2P

Oh, there you are!

The abominable Snowman, Nessie and Santa Claus was just here looking for you. Supposedly there was some conference you were requested to attend in Neverneverland.

Anyways, Give them a call! And give our regards to Windows Security if you see it while you are there.

Rgds,

-RG.