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More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched
MsManhattan writes "Microsoft security executive Jeff Jones has disclosed that in the first six months of Vista's release, the company has patched fewer than half of the operating system's known bugs. Microsoft has fixed only 12 of 27 reported Vista vulnerabilities whereas it patched 36 of 39 known bugs in Windows XP in the first six months following its release. Jones says that's because "Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer high-severity vulnerabilities at the six month mark compared to ... Windows XP," but he did not address the 15 unpatched flaws."
First, the author of the submission doesn't know the difference between a bug and a vulnerability. Second, the title ought to read: "Vista Vulnerabilies are Less Serious than in XP" (and there are fewer vulnerabilities in Vista than in XP in total).
That's the reason why only half of them were fixed while in XP most of them.
Then read the actual report: http://www.csoonline.com/pdf/6_Month_Vista_Vuln_Re port.pdf
It sounds bad because the person who posted it to Slashdot, and Slashdot's editors, want it to sounds bad. Are you new here or something?