Well, we can all sleep better tonight. Microsoft Windows Vista is being proclaimed more secure than Linux and Mac OS X by Jeff Jones, security strategy director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group. Jeff released a report on June 21, the six month anniversary of the operating system’s November release, praising Vista’s track record.
eWeek – MS: Vista More Secure than Linux, Mac OS X – Lisa Vaas: In the report, which will be released on Jones’ blog, Jones compares the number of vulnerabilities of critical, medium and low severity that have been discovered in Vista with those found in Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 6.06 LTSâReduced Component Set, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.8, Novell SLED 10âReduced Component Set and Apple Mac OS X v10.4.
Jeff’s feeling pretty secure because according to his count Vista is well ahead of the other OS’s.
I hope he’s right. However, it’s going to take longer then six months to be comfortable with the words Windows and Security in the same sentence without the words “lack of” falling in there somewhere.
From the time that I’ve played with Vista you have to turn some of the “security” off to make it usable, else it hounds you constantly.
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