Monday, February 05, 2007

Vista

Hmmm. OK. Is it is just me? Sure I'm an Apple freak but c'mon the day VISTA launches they find a bug where someone could basically delete your hard drive by talking or "shouting" a command within an audio file. MS response you ask? Here it is... Vista users would need to have the speech recognition feature enabled and have a microphone and speakers connected to their system.

Microsoft recommends that users who are concerned about having their computer shout-hacked disable the speaker or microphone, turn off the speech recognition feature, or shut down Windows Media Player if they encounter a file that tries to execute voice commands on their system.

I never have my mic and speakers attached. Oh wait. Yes I do. And a webcam and an OS which will not delete itself.

Way to go Bill.