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Windows Vista Security at 180 Days

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Just as he did at the 90-day mark, Jeff Jones, a Microsoft Director from the Trustworthy Computing group and frequent blogger on security topics, has done a comparison of vulnerabilities discovered in Windows Vista versus other operating systems in their first 6 months of availability. Windows Vista holds up well in this comparison, showing a significantly improved vulnerability profile over its first 180 days of availability compared to Windows XP and the other operating systems that were examined. The report is available here .

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  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2007
    PingBack from http://www.vista-blog.de/6-monate-vista-ein-sicherheitsreport/

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2007
    what about the reasons? is it objective? what about many users having XP and not buying the Vista still? Or other reasons?

  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2007
    Sorry, I'm not impressed by Vista's security record. How can Microsoft attest to its own Trustworthy Security Initiative when they let the USER32.DLL security bug (MS07-17, 925902) find its way into Vista? This buggy piece of code has been around since before Windows 2000. Shame on you Microsoft!

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2007
    We maybe missing the point here. OS's have never been not rock solid- too many varibles. We are finding Vista better than XP- standalone & networked- even on AS400 & VMS. More intrusive but as stated by Microsoft- not a comprehensive solution for security. The fact they have a Trustworthy Computing group (finally) is some comfort that their platforms and apps will function consistently- as opposed to a lackluster attitude in the past. For those of us that have slept in the computer room overnight fearing the worst- at least we can go home with remote to a  comforting abode & a wee dram (not the memory type). For some of our users that just want their computers to work-  we put up www.vista-security.info to help explain in plain english what the basics are. ALTB  

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2008
    How and where Can i get Windows Vista Security at 180 Days? Thanks in advance...