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Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws

Posted by samzenpus on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

ancientribe writes "Microsoft issued a year-one security report on its Windows Vista operating system today, and it turns out Vista logged less than half the vulnerabilities than Windows XP did in its first year. According to the new Microsoft report, Vista also had fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than other OSes — including Red Hat rhel4ws, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 — did in their first years."

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  1. flaws counted in operating systems.. by LingNoi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    including Red Hat rhel4ws, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
    Apples and oranges. Windows Flaws are flaws in the operating system. Linux flaws are to do with the applications and the operating system.

    Hence why they have less, you get no applications with their OS.
  2. That was then, this is now. by SeaFox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Microsoft issued a year-one security report on its Windows Vista operating system today [CC], and it turns out Vista logged less than half the vulnerabilities than Windows XP did in its first year.

    Who cares how many security flaws XP had in it's first year? This isn't it's first year anymore. The question is how many flaws does Vista have now compared to how many flaws XP has now. Maybe once the number of Vista flaws is that low, I'll consider it.
  3. Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It has the fewest flaws found because it has the fewest amount of people looking for them. Whereas OSX has so few flaws cos it is just plain amazing.
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    What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
  4. Re:Fewest Admitters = Fewest Flaws by drsmithy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lets start with the built in DRM, [...]

    Completely and utterly irrelevant. Either you have DRM-encumbered media, in which case the DRM in Vista means you can actually use it, or you don't, and the DRM does nothing.

    the exremely annoying UAC prompts,

    Which are exactly the same as the ones in Linux and OS X.

    the HUGE amount of software that ran fine with XP that doesn't run with Vista,

    Which is proportionally miniscule.

    the HUGE amount of system rescources needed to get decent performance...

    A Ghz-class processor, a gigabyte or more of RAM and a US$30 video card. Heady stuff, indeed, needing a machine less than 5-6 years old.