Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversJeff Jones, the Microsoft employee who published his controversial "Windows Vista - 90 Day Vulnerability Report", is now back with a 180 days (6 month) version.
In the full 14-page report he discusses the vulnerabilities in each OS, fixed and unfixed, and makes sure to emphasize the reduced Linux builds that exclude non-default and optional components without equivalents on Windows. “If you share the opinion that Windows and applications ported to Windows get a higher level of researcher scrutiny than other OSes, then the 6-month results are even more positive. If you don't share that opinion, then they still stand on their own ...” writes Jones.
Six months is a much more interesting time frame, and gives us the opportunity to see if the early trend indicators are holding up, or if the early signs of progress were a short-term gain. Also, I thought it was worth going a little deeper in the analysis to look at the total fixed and unfixed vulns as I did last time, plus these additional views:
* Include a comparison view of Linux distribution workstation builds that exclude vulnerabilities non-default optional components as well as OpenOffice and other applications that do not have equivalents on Windows XP.
* Include a comparison view that excludes Low and Medium severities to just focus on High severity vulnerabilities fixed and unfixed in the first 6 months, and
* A comparison view that combines both of these
For the full details, or to print the report, you can download the report in pdf.
For those that only want the executive summary, here is a key chart that shows the publicly disclosed High severity vulnerabilities during the first 90 days of availability, broken down by vulns fixed and vulns unfixed. Note that this chart is showing the reduced Linux builds that exclude non-default and optional components without equivalents on WIndows. (clicking the chart also gets you to the full report.)
The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista continues to show a trend of fewer total and fewer High severity vulnerabilities at the 6 month mark compared to its predecessor product Windows XP (which did not benefit from the SDL) and compared to other modern competitive workstation OSes (which also did not benefit from an SDL-like process).
If you share the opinion that Windows and applications ported to Windows get a higher level of researcher scrutiny than other OSes, then the 6-month results are even more positive. If you don't share that opinion, then they still stand on their own ...
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Comments(16)
so? vista is shit...and am still with xp till vista sp2
there is nothing vista does more than xp, except of use a huge amount of ram and make the
system cpu fan go crazy in the summer ...xp is just fine, i use my money on other
stuff....
xp pro beats vista on everything... boot time, program/game compatibility, system
ressource usage, graphics.
at cgc: vista doesn't use any more ram then xp does and vista uses your ram better then
xp because of superfetch. why pay for that extra gb or ram if the os doesn't use it?
its clear you know shit about operating systems.
sorry but vista always boot faster than xp (thanks to delayed start for services), for
everything else performance-wise, xp beats vista... but that only true if you don't count
stability-- say win98 always beats xp. in vista you trades performance for stability and
security. i'm sure n00b would have no idea what security features in vista such as
address space layout randomization was doing behind the scene.
reading the previous post made me justvista boot time is not faster than xp not even in
your dreams big boy. i have tweaked vista to make it boot as fast as win xp... no luck so
far... show me i'm wrong!!!
here is a 24-26 seconds xp boot up:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8721891337669319237&q=25+sec+boot+up&total=28&star
t=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3
hell i dont konw what you people are on about, vista and xp pro boot up has fast as each
other in about 25 to 30 secs. it must be your crap systems.
it's obvious to me, that most of you people here know jack shit about vista or how to
use it. so what gives you the right to dis a perfectly good os?
on my main 17" laptop that orginaly came with xp, i upgraded it and it booted slower on
a fresh install. i went back to xp. i also purchased a new laptop that came with vista
premium, and it boots up fairly well. my older xp notebook has the same amount of memory,
and is a fast pemtium 4, but that's not enought these days for vista. i think the secret
is the new laptop is dual core. that may be the answer why it boots fine.
vista id shite i went back to xp pro as it was hacked in seconds and the only thing that
is does better is provide a few pics and gadgets...vista is shit stick to xp for now
listen timbook. i don't know the meaning of "your crap system"
i use my pc for
daily work. i'm a computer assistant and a "tweaker" in my spare time (kind of a hobby)
pc specs
intel psn945
intel pentium d 3.4ghz 3.4ghz (dual core
processor)
4 gb ddr2 667mhz kingston (dual channel)
ati x550 256 ram
windows vista ultimate x64
and around 40 applications installed for my daily work.
clean start up (only antivirus loads up)
and i bet my pc is twice
organized than yours :) (don't take it too personal, when you have to face customers you
can't afford not to be organized.
now again... it would be great if you can
show me a video in which vista boots as fast as xp.
seems you are a huge moron, upset because your vista doesn't sell well,
i can use
any software and get the same result with xp, i tried both of the os and put xp back on
all my pcs, because xp goes faster on anytihing, so put your head back in the hole and
shut the f*** up, you keep you vista and i keep my xp simple as that...
i have macs & pcs with mac os x, linux, and windows... and the best os is windows vista
linux is a little complicated, mac os is like fisher price... and windows is just
fine.
all i know is that each macine behaves a lil diferent form others,so i see no point
everyone get on eachother's throats about something as trivial as an os...lol.
one
can have the exact same configuration on two exactly the same pcs and still you will
observe that the results are diferent.
thats the way it is...almost like me using my
time to tell you folks this...
peace \/
to those people think vista is faster, just boot a fresh copy of xp and then tell me what
os is faster, i got a brand new pc came with vista, i reformatted and put xp, and is at
least a third faster, the problem for me on vista is some on my old hardware doesn't work
on (of course) and i can care about windows aero....
use the sleep function in vista. boots upp in about 10s for me.
vista is
great...not just yeat.
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By swandike on 24.06.2007 - 03:06