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Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws
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."
MOD PARENT UP!
Here's why the Vista numbers look good for Microsoft's PR department: ;-)
It'll run your code at half the speed of open XP boxen and when the user plays music, all your SPAM profits shrink because the bandwidth is limited. Who would want to 'own' a Windows Vista box? And it looks like the numbers are there to prove it.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
What about the biggest flaw of them all
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How many of those forced installs have been wiped out by now and replaced by XP, 2K or Linux?
Approximately 3. Well, four if you count the guy in India.
I love my sig.
Trying to infer user base from web hits is bullshit.
Which executables? ftp.exe? That's your evidence that the networking stack comes from BSD? You're a fucking idiot.
"Some people"? Give me a break; TONS of people have posted this on slashdot. Not only that, but the posters making said comments get modded +5 in the process.
You can make the argument that not everyone who posts to slashdot doesn't think that way, but there isn't a chance in hell that you can successfully argue that the slashdot community didn't embrace that viewpoint.
the exremely annoying UAC prompts - Right because we all install 100 apps a day or make 100 system changes a day. I'm on my PC a lot and rarely get asked to continue. When I do, it's an install or a system change. Which makes sense.
the HUGE amount of system rescources needed to get decent performance - Correcting you, you only need a huge amount of resources to get Vista with all it's eye-candy. Feel free to turn it off to get performance you can live with. In fact, when you install it, the OS suggests what level of eye candy.
Lets start with the built in DRM - I only agree with this about Vista itself. Vista needs to be activated, etc.. Otherwise, what are you talking about. Vista doesn't check or care if I download 100 new movies and songs from my favorite torrent, burn then to DVD, upload, etc...
You might want to try actually using a system before commenting on it.
Once in a while you can eat in McDonalds when you have no time, or a need for industrial artificial flavors... But there is no reason for using vista, not even once in a while... The only thing that vista can be useful for, besides a good live example of HOW not to waste lot of years making an operative system, is to feel the same sensation effect that happens when you enter a freezing cold pool of water, only to run to hot water. As a result, you get a very relaxing and warm feeling. Its really a pleasure after trying to work with vista, to go back to your O.S of choice.