Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP?

Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP?
Federico Biancuzzi, 2006-12-05

Microsoft has announced Vista's release dates. From a security standpoint what choice should consumers take during this Christmas shopping season? Most will be faced with Windows XP only or Windows XP with Microsoft's Express Upgrade option to Vista. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed a wide range of security researchers and anti-virus folks to get some consensus on the security of Vista over Windows XP for consumers, with some advice for corporate users as well.

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Yawn. At this point I have all but given up on Microsoft. At home I run Mac OS X exculisvely and enjoy the benefits of secure unix OS with every possible utiity for email, word processing, photography video and audio I could imagine. At work, well is Sun Solaris.. and Windows 2003 servers. 1...

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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-11
Anonymous

Mac OSX hardly counts as being "secure". Look at the recent BIDs, and you'll see a number of issues.

IIRC, I've read on several places that it is in fact *not* as secure as hoped.

And Solaris isn't much better either....

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-06
Anonymous (2 replies)

This question is completely irrelevant. Everybody expects Vista to provide better security than XP once properly developed and released, but people don't realistically have the choice of Vista for the holidays.

Good job SecurityFocus, you've managed to ask yet another question that nobody cares ...

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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

Hey sweetie,
u missed the point :)

The fact should be seen in the other way: if you want to buy a PC with XP you should do that right now, before Vista is on the market. Later it would be difficult.

So, the extended-question-to-help-you-understand-better is: from a security standpoint, should...

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Re: Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

In practice, that's not really true. XP will be available for some time after Vista, even if only through back-channels.

You missed the other half of my post, though: there's a universal consensus that Vista is more secure than XP, and so this article is irrelevant to security. Anyone with a ma...

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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-14
Steve

How can exist a "universal consensus that Vista is more secure than XP" if "the choice of 'Vista Over XP?' does not exist at this point in time" ?

Check all the answers. Not so pro-Vista...
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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-13
Anonymous

Well the vendors care. Look at how they all reiterate how important it is to include third-party products on top of either XP or Vista....

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-06
Leonardo A. M. (1 replies)

The truth is that in the long run it is expected that Vista will provide a safer environment for the user than XP does, because of a better architecture.

But I wouldn´t advise a security conscious user to adopt Vista in the first moment. It´s better to wait and see. An operating system is a huge ...

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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-07
Anonymous

Operating system is not just for technical experts. Most of the PCs used are by Kids, students, house-wives (tell my wife not to wrte the password on a paper and stick it to comp, she will write it in a notefile on computer) Old people at home... If u are not tech-savy at work,... u have a network a...

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-06
Anonymous (1 replies)

Anybody remember Christmas 2000? 98SE vs. ME. I think we know which the safer bet was on that. ...

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Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-09
Anonymous

98SE vs ME? Yeah, the safe bet was neither. the lesser of two evils was 98SE....

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-12
saik0pod

Gentlemen, my current viewpoint on the matter stsands where it has for many years now, Windows XP is and will continue to be the most pre-dominant OS until late into 2007. Although Vista has new and improved security enhancements and more flexible implementations of other features....

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2006-12-26
undertuga

Dont you ever install or buy Vista machines, folks! Never...

You can find several sites over the net with several "underground" reviews about the system, and it sucks!

Its simply a very bad developed copy of some OS like OSX and Linux, but it sucks anyway!

Microsoft is not focused in the c...

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Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP? 2007-01-11
seikai

Gentlemen, although Microsoft Vista will be alot more enhanced with both security and graphics. Microsoft Windows XP will continue to be the most pre-dominant OS until late into 2007 or mid 2008. I've said this for many years now. Vista's release will generate a small output of generation to the pub...

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