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Published on November 10th, 2006 by rich

Now: 9 Nov 2006

[Jim] Allchin [Microsoft VP] Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus

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.

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Then: 6 Sep 2001

Jim Allchin: “Microsoft stamps out XP buffer overflows”

Microsoft has said it has stamped out buffer overflows with the upcoming release of Windows XP. Jim Allchin, vice president, claimed the company has done a complete code review of its operating system and removed all buffers which could overflow.

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