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/me looks at the last line of my post  .
Were there widgets as well as gadgets then? I assumed he meant gadgets. Why were they (the supplied ones) a security risk?
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I agree. A widget is a made-up name like a doodad. He meant gadgets, which were a security risk http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/12/disable-w...
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Totally unrelated, but looking back at gadgets now in 2013, you could say they were ahead of their time.
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A bit scary - and that it took so long to come out.
Or - as it took so long to come out may it have not been as serious as suggested. But once the weakness was discovered it was unblockable perhaps.
Tiles, and publicly-submitted apps, will of course be hack and malware-proof  .
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The security model is tighter so there should be less issues overall, but that doesn't eliminate everything.
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Each succeeding Windows version has been "the most secure yet" .
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That statement has been consistently true though since they started using the phrase (which was on XP I think). I would go as far as saying Windows is probably the most secure OS available, even compared to Linux/UNIX operating systems of the same class.
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He meant gadgets, which were a security risk Only by insecure gadgets that were added on top of the MS supplied ones?
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Each succeeding Windows version has been "the most secure yet" .
I wonder if the next version of Windows should even be called Windows, since Microsoft seem to want to evolve it into a system of full-screen apps (without windows).
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Microsoft TileHome.
With an ancillary TileShop.
That should mess up Google result pages .
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