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