Redmond moves ahead with its next version of Windows Server, which is still due to ship before the end of this year. Also, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer has unveiled the beta version of Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) at this week’s Microsoft management summit in Las Vegas. In the meantime, Microsoft is to ship 32-bit & 64-bit versions of Longhorn server.
Microsoft Delivers Windows Server R2 Beta 2
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Microsoft has reduced the number of buffer overflow attacks with Windows Server SP1 and now this new R2 release. Windows is getting safer but we are not out of the woods yet.
However, I can;t say the same for Linux. In fact, I think linux is going backwards in terms of security. The 2.6.X kernel contains a new API called vsyscalls. This has become a new source of buffer overflow attacks. See here: http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5QP0L0AFFS.html
I hope the OSS community can get their act together and fix these horrible problems….
Actually if you had been reading, everyone thinks the Linux Kernel is not really going very well in terms of security and issues.
in the case of linux, its hard to make sumthing thas already pretty good any better withought intorducing a few new problems along the way.
in the case of windows, its pretty easy to make sumthing that is hoprrible, better by realesing a few updates to known problems. then you look like “hey we are doing sumthing great by fixing the problems we already knew about”
whatever floats yur boat.