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"Given that Microsoft did not have time to do a wholesale re-write of Windows with Vista..."

Huh? How is FIVE YEARS not enough time? I guess they spent so much time figuring out how to cripple the machine if you play a blu-ray dvd to get the basics right.

When will people realize the emperor has no clothes?

OMG! You mean to tell me Vista has to be patched???? Oh, the humanity!

Microsoft didn't re-invent the wheel with Vista???? Backward compatibility?? Who needs that??????

Security researchers salivating at the possibility of Vista vulnerabilities??? And waiting to throw it in everyone's face? Who'd a thunk?
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This post is just plain ol' FUD!!!!

I was web surfing from a limited user account with the security slider all the way to the top. A message appeared saying the MSFT patch had been installed, and my machine would automatically restart to complete the installation. There was no option to delay the restart beyond the few minute timer that appeared on the screen. Must have been an important patch. Someone was sufficiently worried about this vulnerability to wait for anything.

I installed the 4 security patches on an HP desktop running XP SP2 Media Center, and found that the machine won't shut down automatically now. It just sits there with the 'shutting down' screen, at least for a couple minutes, and has to be turned off manually. Does anyone have a suggestion?

James is correct. If MS is still reusing code from the early 1990's, then it is fully two decades behind Apple.

I am sick and tired of MS parading around saying their OS is the most secure ever, when clearly they are more interested in market share than minimization of security flaws.

GREAT........................................................................................... I just started the Vista update on our PC before I had a chance to see this. I am writing this on a MAC as the NEW PC BOX runs the upgrades now. I think I should have just went with my gut feeling and bought another MAC?

Don't be so quick to condemn Microsoft on the basis of a few security researchers conjecture and couple of Vista patches!

"Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors."

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201

Not in our stars, but in ourselves.
The problem seems to be not that MICROSOFT or anybody else isn't perfect, but that we smile about people using our property to their own ends and screwing us over in the process.
Give me a physical address and I will be pleased to drop by and beat to dust those who do such things.
It's a tried and generally true method, and I am sure it would take less time and effort and money than following the giggling, tut/tutting, passive people (like me to this point) who seem to feel cyberjerks are somehow not jerks at all but cute little folk who are ingeniously exploiting the system'

For Mike above: your shutdown issue might show a need for Microsoft's "uphclean" service (User Profile Hive Cleanup). This makes sure that reluctant processes respond properly to kill signals at shutdown. Available from download.microsoft.com.
There are versions for Windows XP.\, Vista, and possibly other systems.

Thanks Mark. I think wolf25 had the machine that wouldn't shut down, but making sure the profile hive is clean sounds like something that maybe I should check out too. I've never cleaned the hive to make sure no extraneous entries are in it.

My computer is unable to do a system restore, never had a problem in the past.

I noticed on restore points 4/4/07 and 4/12/07 a reference to(software distribution service 2.0)

I knew that I had not put this software on my system.

I went to the internet and look up (software distribution service 2.0) and many sites came up with many complaints. Compliants like they could not longer do a system restore, missing files and pictures, slower system, system backup problems and crashes.

I have have a missing financial file, that is why I wanted to do a restore, now I am worried maybe something else is going on.

I think it is related to Microsoft's so called critical updates for 4/03/07 and 4/11/07. Those udates are KB932168, KB930178 KB931261 KB931784 KB925902.

What ever is going on, I am unable to do a system restore, even restore points before the updates will not restore.

My system's Ram has been affected as well, running much slower.

Purchased new HP (AMD64X2 4600, 2G RAM) in February with Vista HP. All worked well with Firefox. Beginning late March/early April, Firefox started to terminate, followed by blue screen crash. Restored OS to out-of-box status, followed by Vista auto-updates; reinstalled Firefox, same thing happened time after time. Uninstalled Firefox, including profiles, and switched to Opera. After one day, same crash/blue screen scenario. Anyone have similar experience? Is there a Microsoft conspiracy against IE competitors?

Vista was written so they could spend more time on longhorn, as they needed more time they told you all longhorn will become known as vista, well you beleve anythink they tell you, have you ever wondered why all those fancy looks and fetures never appeared.