Windows Vista is untouchable (security)

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Windows Vista is untouchable as far as security is concerned, according to Microsoft. In what has become a traditional operating system vulnerability measuring contest, Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoftʼs Trustworthy Computing group, has compared Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client), Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (V. 4), Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop, Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). In terms of the sheer volume of vulnerabilities, Vista, with the least amount of security flaws, managed to come on top of all rival operating systems, with Jones placing a focus on Mac OS X.

 

"Users of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) fared the worst for the first 3 months of the year, experiencing triple the number of High severity vulnerabilities of Windows Vista users (double the number of High severity vulnerabilities as the latest Red Hat desktop client)", Jones concluded.

 

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