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More Than Half of Known Vista Bugs are Unpatched

Posted by Zonk on from the bugtracker-is-half-empty-attitude dept.

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."

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  1. In Other Words by camperdave · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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,"

    So, they're not fixing the bugs because Vista is less buggy than XP? Whatever happened to fixing it because it was broken?

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  2. Re:Why would you ever..... by ThinkFr33ly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, they didn't.

    If you RTFA, you'll see that Vista's unpatched vulnerabilities are not considered "critical" because, thanks to Vista's improved security model, are virtually impossible to exploit.

    Slashdot actually managed to spin a highly positive analysis of Vista into something that suggests Vista is not only worse than XP, but Microsoft is somehow going out of its way *not* to fix it.

    Gotta love it. Slashdot is the GOP of technology news sites.