, 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 (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Re: Christmas Shopping: Vista Over XP?
2006-12-07
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Anonymous (1 replies)
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 association of very complex subsystems. It is very difficult to get it right the first time. And Microsoft adopted the brave decision of rewrite many things from scratch like the TCP stack. Perhaps it will pay off in the future, but now these piece of code cannot be considered mature. And maturity is an essencial propertie of a secure piece of software.
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