I didn't think Java was built into Vista, but a extra download you need. And didn't they give the computers the standard install and no other software? Seems to be a java problem and not a Vista one.
That's why the same Java/Flash hacks worked on the other systems that run them as well... Oh wait, they didn't! You do know Linux and Mac both run Java/Flash, right?
Re: Andir, That's a pretty ridiculous statement based on very little information. Unless the same programming team worked on both Windows and Linux versions of Flash, it's an apples to oranges comparison. Even if they did, it could be simply a coding bug, it's not like they just take the exact same code, compile it in all three platforms and it just works. Even the versions may be different, it may be a bug specific to the current version of Flash installed on that Vista system that may or may not have affected earlier versions (and knowing Adobe, the minor versions of Flash on Mac and Linux probably trail behind Windows due to the size of the relative size of programming teams). Even looking at linux based home routers, bugs are present in some brands and not in others even they use the same codebase. You can't make sweeping generalizations of this nature without any of the details which are still under NDA.
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I didn't think Java was built into Vista, but a extra download you need. And didn't they give the computers the standard install and no other software? Seems to be a java problem and not a Vista one.
That's why the same Java/Flash hacks worked on the other systems that run them as well... Oh wait, they didn't! You do know Linux and Mac both run Java/Flash, right?
Re: Andir, That's a pretty ridiculous statement based on very little information. Unless the same programming team worked on both Windows and Linux versions of Flash, it's an apples to oranges comparison. Even if they did, it could be simply a coding bug, it's not like they just take the exact same code, compile it in all three platforms and it just works. Even the versions may be different, it may be a bug specific to the current version of Flash installed on that Vista system that may or may not have affected earlier versions (and knowing Adobe, the minor versions of Flash on Mac and Linux probably trail behind Windows due to the size of the relative size of programming teams). Even looking at linux based home routers, bugs are present in some brands and not in others even they use the same codebase. You can't make sweeping generalizations of this nature without any of the details which are still under NDA.