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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)
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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