● 11.11.09

●● Vista 7 — Exactly like Vista — Fails to Deliver Promised Upgrades

Posted in Microsoft, Security, Vista 7, Vista 8, Windows at 6:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Just like Windows Vista in early 2007, people who were promised Windows upgrades do not get serviced, and they are furious

AS part of our continued exploration of the reality behind Vista 7, we have found that Vista 7 cheats buyers when it comes to “free” upgrades. More importantly, those upgrades turn out to be just like Vista two and a half years ago. The short story is that large companies like Dell did not deliver those “free” upgrades to Vista in a timely fashion, leaving customers very angry*.

Well, exactly the same thing is now happening with Vista 7. To quote The Register:

HP, Dell punters furious over Windows 7 upgrade delaysSome Hewlett-Packard and Dell customers are up in arms about delays to the Windows 7 upgrades promised to punters who purchased PCs from the hardware vendors earlier this year.[...]However, weeks on from that launch, HP and Dell’s tech support forums are awash with customers complaining that the upgrade hasn’t been shipped to them yet.

Another new article from The Register speaks about Windows botnets that give the world SPAM.

A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world’s spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye.[...]With head chopped off of Ozdok, more than 264,000 IP addresses were found reporting to sinkholes under FireEye’s control, an indication of the massive number of zombies believed to have belonged to the botnet. FireEye researchers plan to work with the ISPs to identify the owners of the orphaned bots so their owners can clean up the mess.

Vista 7 will not be a solution to botnets (see links below). █

Related posts:

Cybercrime Rises and Vista 7 is Already Open to HijackersVista 7: Broken Apart Before ArrivalDepartment of Homeland Security ‘Poisoned’ by Microsoft; Vista 7 is Open to Hijackers AgainVista 7 Security “Cannot be Fixed. It’s a Design Problem.”Why Vista 7 Could be the Least Secure Operating System EverJournalists Suggest Banning Windows, Maybe Suing Microsoft Over DDoS AttacksVista 7 Vulnerable to Latest “Critical” FlawsVista 7 Seemingly Affected by Several More “Critical” Flaws This MonthReason #1 to Avoid Vista 7: InsecurityVista 7 Left Hijackable Again (Almost a Monthly Recurrence)Vista 7 as Insecure as Predecessors, Shows SophosMicrosoft, Novell, SCO, and NASDAQ Delistings

______* There were other such upgrade issues that mirror what we now see in Vista 7 (upgrade errors).

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