Microsoft issued a security report for the first 90 days from the release of Windows Vista and gave it an A-plus
By: Captain Maverick
Published: Mar 24, 2007
Updated: Aug 29, 2010
Microsoft Corp. said that Windows Vista's first 90-days have been a huge success as compared to the first three months of Windows XP, three versions of Linux, and even the current version of the Mac operating system. Jeff Jones, the strategy director in Microsoft's security technology unit, tallied up vulnerabilities patched during the first 90 days of Vista, XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.
Jones stated that Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor, and a significantly better profile relative to comparable modern competitive operating systems. He said that Vista saw one security vulnerability since its launch and that the bug, in the anti-malware scanning engine used by the bundled-with-Vista Windows Defender, was patched last month.
Of course 90 days is a pretty early mark to benchmark the security of the operating system and time will tell if Vista is as secure as Microsoft hopes it is. Some say that hackers are moving away from attacking the core operating systems and are instead focusing on third-party applications and drivers. Son in the future, though it may be likely that Microsoft will be less to blame for attacks because it's invested in [Vista's] security, the overall volume of attacks or exploits will not diminish.
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