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Microsoft touts Vista's low flaw count
Robert Lemos, 2008-01-24
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Microsoft touts Vista's low flaw count 2008-01-24
R Brown
The Trustworthy Computing Initiative has a series of levels of security certification. Care to guess which level Microsoft is certified too? (Hint: it isn't the highest.)

As for issuing the fewest number of fixes, that is too easy to interpret the other way; they haven't found the flaws or been a...

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Microsoft's abra kadabra man 2008-01-24
Richard Chapman
Your job is to choose the bag with the least amount of money in it. Bag #1 has 65 bills in it, bag #2 has 360, bag #3 has 224 and bag #4 has 116. You can look in each bag and examine the contents if you wish. That would be the wise thing to do. But if you are unwise, you will simply take the bag ...

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Microsoft touts Vista's low flaw count 2008-01-24
Anonymous (1 replies)
I wonder if that would have anything to do with the fact that no one is really using this software yet. Therefore not enough people to be a target to want to go after?

Just my 2 cents......

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Re: Microsoft touts Vista's low flaw count 2008-01-24
Ichinin
Exactly what i was going to point out. Intruders go after stuff that is *out there* and being *used*, and since Vista is more of a "toy" os (unlike Windows server) and Vista also is not very backwards compatible (games), it will take a long while before it will be looked at seriously.

To put thin...

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