Friday, November 5, 2010
Windowns 7 For Mobile has a kill switch too
11/05/2010
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Microsoft has the ranks of Apple and Google in place what some connected to its controversial security measure mobile application platform viewing.
Phone installed in Windows 7 and the applications made available, containing about the marketplace application, a layer of security that Microsoft can disable or remove entirely an application from a user's device. The security function, it turns out, was also included in Windows 6.5 through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
to measure According to PC Pro Interview with Todd Biggs, Microsoft's director of product management for the Windows Mobile market, which is a worst-case scenario type of security, and something that is hardly a common occurrence given the company's testing process prior to Be Become an App is available in the market.
The more common way to USA from CNET Todd Brix, Microsoft's senior director of Windows Product Management phone, explained that Microsoft get in touch with the developer and try to get them to fix a problem is discovered, there were eleven clock. If the do not too quickly, an app from the market down is drawn. That said Brix with the kill switch or "withdrawal" as it is officially known, is to solve all of there a little too negative an impact on the everyday user.
Brix found that people think taking a Windows Mobile device in screening should not be afraid to disappear that live their applications. "The point is, surely we have access to high-quality applications - a wide range of applications - and music and other types of content that is downloaded by shopping experience, and they can and buy with confidence and convenience," said Brix.
The other part of the equation, Brix said, made the list, what can be done and not as transparent as possible. "We have no secret rules, we publish all test cases we certify -. Those against it, to test what users." This includes things like applications keep genes are accidentally sharing information or location, and maintaining of malware. "This is common sense for the general consumer protection," said Brix.
Apple made headlines discovered at the end of 2008, when it was that one line of code was designed that would ensure telephone in every apartment home that is not on Apple's App Blacklist. If the app if it is disabled. This was later to be seem more about protecting the security of a user's location for applications that try to release them without knowledge of the user power. Around the same time that it was discovered by Google's Android, a kill switch had to be that you remove a Google application be removed.
The presence of a software kill switch would not mention any first for Microsoft, as already containing such a feature at the tail end of the previous generation of Windows Mobile. It was also brought into force at the operating system level in the first incarnation of Windows Vista. However, it was potentially harmful to stop in Itself less developers and more about keeping people who pirated copies of the ITS with it full power. That was later with the software the first major service pack, which said in part to Microsoft, which is a much lower rate of piracy has been removed feature.
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