Microsoft: Vista has fewest vulnerabilities at 6-month mark
ENT News | at | by Mike
Windows Vista, in its first half-year of life, has proven to be an exceptionally secure operating system -- much more secure, in fact, than competing desktop OSes, according to Microsoft.
A "6 month vulnerability report" released Thursday by Microsoft shows that, compared to the first six months following the release of Windows XP, OSes from various Linux distributions, and even Mac OS X 10.4, that Vista is the hands-down winner for fewest security holes.
The report was written by Jeff Jones, a Security Strategy Director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group. He noted that for Vista's first six months (it was released to business Nov. 30, 2006), a total of 12 vulnerabilities affected Vista. Microsoft rated five of those vulnerabilities "Critical," six as "Important," and one did not have a severity rating.