Topic 'Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools' in forum 'Security' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723481 en Thu, 23 May 2013 15:13:00 EDT Thu, 23 May 2013 15:13:00 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27727210 said by Snowy:

said by dave:

I think one way to understand the state of affairs is that "Microsoft" is not a monolithic entity ...

I've often wondered how that discombobulation came into existence & not being from the corporate world I've been in awe that they still manage to tie their shoes in the morning let alone prosper as well as they do.
By design or not, it must come down to multiple departments working independently of each other or a monolithic like Security Overlord running the show.
But then the Security Overlord would need a department of their own, adding yet another dept...

Just like our government. :(
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27727210 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:00:18 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27726085
Your desktop looks like your browser looks like your email looks like your explorer looks like ...

Can't stand that. Can never figure out just what I am running. I like each piece to stand on its own merits & to stand out from anything else.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27726085 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:42:50 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725795 It's a pity that support disappeared for the product.
Maybe there was technology in it they could incorporate in Win 7?
At least you hope it didn't all goto waste.

Applies To: Windows 7

Shared computers present unique challenges. Microsoft® publishes software that gives users a great degree of flexibility, allowing them to customize their experiences by configuring their computers’ settings. In shared-computer scenarios, however, administrators want to limit users’ ability to change settings, particularly settings that would affect the health of the computer or the experience of other users. Privacy and consistency are very important in shared-computer scenarios.

Windows® SteadyState™ is a free tool from Microsoft that helps make shared computers easier to set up and manage. In scenarios where users share computers (for example, in kiosks, schools, libraries, or Internet cafes). Windows SteadyState helps make those computers more reliable, providing a more consistent experience for users. Additionally, it helps defend shared computers from unauthorized changes and restricts users from changing system settings or files.

Windows SteadyState is a useful tool for shared-computer access; however, it supports 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista® only. It does not support Windows 7. You can learn more about Windows SteadyState, including the Windows operating systems it supports, at Windows SteadyState.

Although the link to SteadyState at the end of the quote on the page just links to Windows 8 (urgghh).
/whine off.

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725795 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:19:45 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725767
Marketeers have this fantasy that it helps customers "understand" your products if you keep changing the names. People with brains think that the point of names is to identify entities, so it's better if the names don't keep changing.

Hope this helps...

;-)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725767 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:08:36 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725451 Windows SteadyState @Wikipedia..
Interestingly enough, all references to this useful product (belonging now to category - "No longer available") is completely removed from company's own web sites... It simply doesn't exists now in m$ search...
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i hope this helps :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27725410 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:28:13 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27724652 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27724652 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:22:19 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723917
I think it's simple: organizations larger than N people can't really communicate efficiently. Assuming the sort of attitude that computer types have, you naturally end up with a bunch of organizations within the organization. Given the choice between trying to set some other group to do something for me, and just doing it myself whether it's in my charter or not... to hell with it, I'm taking the easy and fun route.

Even IBM, which had more rigid control that most, at least in its mainframe days, ended up with multiple competing product lines.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723917 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:56 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723820 said by dave:

I think one way to understand the state of affairs is that "Microsoft" is not a monolithic entity ...

I've often wondered how that discombobulation came into existence & not being from the corporate world I've been in awe that they still manage to tie their shoes in the morning let alone prosper as well as they do.
By design or not, it must come down to multiple departments working independently of each other or a monolithic like Security Overlord running the show.
But then the Security Overlord would need a department of their own, adding yet another dept...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723820 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:39:53 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723568
It can be set up to function correctly, seemingly.
(Correctly IMO would be a default deny, where by default it is a default allow [basically].)
Now if you were to set it to default deny, it would drive you crazy allowing those apps that you did want to allow.
(There are third party apps that can help in that regard.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723568 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:32:33 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723558 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723558 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:30:09 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723528 --
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” A. de Tocqueville]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723528 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:22:04 EDT Re: Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723527 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723527 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:21:15 EDT Straightening out Microsoft's confusing security tools http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723481 www.pcworld.com/article/2013178/···too.html

"Microsoft has released a confusing selection of security programs over the years. Deborah Armstrong asked me to make sense of them..."]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Straightening-out-Microsofts-confusing-security-tools-27723481 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:11:01 EDT