Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 27th Dec 2006 01:25 UTC, submitted by Sphinx
Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month. On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that makes it possible to increase a user's privileges on all of the company's recent operating systems, including Vista. Update by Thom: Ars thinks the situation is hot air, mostly, something I agree with (a cracker already has to have login credentials for the flaws to be of any use).
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It is very easy why they have 13 upatched vulnerabilities! They want to increase the gap between XP and Vista. That will force you to go to the next version, not for it's "security" but mostly for it's holes of the actual version.
They state that MS is working for security and they have critical errors in a virtual machine (.NET 2.0), what trust you may write about security, when the basic virtual machine is on trouble? I think that a browser like IE7 has similar value with Firefox 3 Alpha on matter of bugs, which makes it risky for use and hard to think that you must wait for one year to get biggest issues fixed.
I think that Gartner has right: you must wait one year to be fixed most Windows flaws, secondly you will be able to use (after 6 years of development) a somehow secure OS. If you will not use in the meantime Mac OS X Leopard or the new Linuxes.