Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws

ancientribe writes "Microsoft issued a year-one security report on its Windows Vista operating system today, and it turns out Vista logged less than half the vulnerabilities than Windows XP did in its first year. According to the new Microsoft report, Vista also had fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than other OSes — including Red Hat rhel4ws, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 — did in their first years."

Yeah, cause nobody uses it!

[Anonymous Coward]

No users == no problems

Employee rejoices

[gardyloo]

Fewer vulnerabilities "make it easier to manage risk," [Jones] says. "All other things being equal, fewer patches mean more time to spend on other security projects to reduce risk."

Wow. The one guy who currently handles the code for Windows security must be quite relieved to hear that!

Well, sure there're few flaws seen -

[rubicon7]

- because it seems nobody's actually using it.

In related news, BeOS showed few vulnerabilities this year...

Passed every test

[edwardpickman]

Click to launch Word.

"Denied'

Copy file

"Denied"

Launch Firefox

"Denied"

Verdict OS completely secure.

Sounds plausible...

[Angst Badger]

...after all, any operating system that is basically unusable is going to have fewer vulnerabilities as a matter of course.

Re:Number of vulnerabilities -- who cares?

[gardyloo]

For the last time, you just can't [...]

        You must be new here.

In other news

[EEPROMS]

Boeing has said it's latest jet liner crashes less and Ford has made a car that kills fewer drivers.

Nah, it just means...

[Kamokazi]

All this means is that there will be a really big patch tomorrow.

Straight from Churchill

[punxking]

How does that old quote go?
"There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and Microsoft PR"
Or something along those lines...

Re:Well, sure there're few flaws seen -

[__aaqvdr516]

While OS/2 Warp pulled in a close second...

Re:Bad metric

[XiX36]

My OS has the fewest flaws! I created a design where the gui involves a sheet of pulverized tree, and then you take the special stylus (sold separately) that contains a special solution of a liquid with tiny pigmented particles suspended in it. While there have been reports that occasionally the stylus can malfunction, vigorous shaking or banging the stylus on a hard surface and proceeding to make several tight spirals or circles clears this OS flaw up pretty quickly! Of course, at present there are not that many users of said OS, but as it is a much more robust OS than Vista, I feel that the results for my OS are far superior to those achieved by Vista.

Re:Well, sure there're few flaws seen -

[techno-vampire]

...and CP/M beat them all out.

Report says Ubuntu is better!

[LingNoi]

From the PDF [technet.com]

Page 12 - Windows Vista Fixed 36 vulnerabilities
Page 14 - Ubuntu fixed 406 vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Look how many vista have left to find!!

Wow, Worse Than I Thought

[ryanisflyboy]

You know it's bad when not even the script kiddies wanna get their paws on it.

Personally

[maroberts]

I'm not giving Vista flaw space.

Summary of all slashdot comments

[Anonymous Coward]

1. no users no bugs
2. microsoft sucks
3. linux rules, yay open source
4. my comments are smarter than yours (also known as comic book guy syndrome)
5. firefox is better than IE
6. if a pro slashdot community product has more bugs, then it is an automatic smear campaign. If the bugs are pointed out by a vendor even if true, propaganda non the less
7. I went to college, can code in c/c++, and understand the linux kernel. I am an expert on everything and know more than anyone else

Only 1 Flaw

[Barumpus]

And that 1 flaw was actually putting Vista on the market.

Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws

[hostyle]

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Re:Methodology has issues

[cp.tar]

10000+ packages (which include everything except for the kitchen sink) that make up a full debian install

I'm sorry, but I'm quite certain that a full Debian install would include Emacs.

Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws

[dintech]

And McDonalds claim they make nutritious healthy food...

Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws

[PinkyDead]

For ANY point of view you can find hundreds of posts by "Slashdotters" supporting OR contradicting it.

No you can't.

Fewest Vulnerabilities, not fewest flaws

[kalirion]

Bricks have few vulnerabilities too.