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Vista the End of An Era? 446

mikesd81 writes "The Times Online has an article about the uncertain future of Windows. Even Microsoft, it seems is admitting that Vista will be the last OS of its kind. With the push towards a constant presence on the internet, and the churn that entails, the company has admitted that even with a two year delay 'it is not really ready'." From the article: "Security experts are acknowledging that Vista is the most secure of Windows to date. However, 'The bad guys will always target the most popular systems,' Mikko Hypponen, of F-Secure, the security group, said. 'Vista's vulnerability to phishing attacks, hackers, viruses and other malicious software will increase quickly.' But the current fear is that the Internet will kill Windows, with Google being Public Enemy No. 1: 'Microsoft is way behind Google when it comes to the internet,' Rupert Godwins, the technology editor at ZDNet, the industry website, said. 'Building Vista, Microsoft is still doing things the old way at the same time as it undergoes a big shift to catch up.'"

Comment Re:ouch! (Score 2, Interesting) 276

No, they're missing the real advantage to holographic storage: better data integrity. When a CD gets scratched, you lose actual bits. But with a holograph, every little piece of the disk contains the entire image. Try it with a real holograph some time... cover up the bottom half, and you can still see the entire thing. Even break it in two, and you have two identical (albeit dimmer and with a limited perspective) versions of the original. Just so long as they are smart about the way they implement it, and the sensors are a good deal more sensitive than they need to be, this kind of media should be a lot more robust than current CDs and DVDs, and maybe even hard drives.

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