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Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-evar dept.

darryl24 writes "Microsoft senior vice president Bob Muglia opened up TechEd 2006 in Boston Sunday evening by proclaiming that Windows Vista was the most secure operating system in the industry. But a bold statement can only go so far, and much of this week's conference has been spent reinforcing that point. Microsoft also acknowledges that nothing is infallible when it comes to computer security. In turn, the company has employed black hat hackers for what is called a penetration, or pen, test team."

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  1. The Slashdot Criteria by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Interesting
    From the Slashdot FAQ:
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    Or, as in this case, any story with a headline that will start an instant flame war.
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  2. Acronyms by linvir · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed in this article that they're treading on our acronyms.

    SDL - Security Development Lifecycle
    Relatively inconspicuous. Simple DirectMedia Layer has nothing to fear from this in terms of mindshare. But then again, they knew that SDL was in use. Why not show a bit of cooperation?

    RMS - Rights Management Something
    This one is amazing, because it's basically DRM named after Richard Stallman. Someone at Microsoft either has a sense of humor, or is a complete prick. I really doubt that this was accidental.

    It's superficial, but I think both examples are very symbolic.

    1. Re:Acronyms by Tim+C · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Treading on "our" acronyms?

      I'm sorry, but rms has meant "root-mean-square" to me for about 15 years, or roughly 8 years longer than I've known about GNU or Linux, and it's meant that to mathematicians for a lot, lot longer than that.

      Since when does anyone "own" an acronym? Talk about overly touchy...

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  3. No they are speaking the truth by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It was their most secure OS ever, right up to the point that WMF bug was exploited and Vista was found to be just as vulnerable as every other windows version.

    Claiming Vista to be the most secure OS ever when it has already had a security flaw is just insane and tells us that MS still just don't get it. Or maybe they do get it. After all they make billions. It is sad but lying to the gullible pays better then telling the truth to the clever. There are just so many more gullible people. Last count about 6 billion.

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  4. Re:Depends on the definition. by jcr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Secure against whom?

    The user, probably. ;-)

    -jcr

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