As the one-year anniversary of Windows Vista approaches, more than a few industry analysts and pundits are ready to write the beleaguered operating system off as a crashing disappointment. Some have even wondered if Vista is on the same path as that of Windows/ME, widely considered to be one of Microsoft’s rare failures in the operating systems business.
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Apple Mac operating systems had more critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 than Microsoft’s operating systems, according to research. George Ou, a writer for ZDNet.co.uk’s sister site ZDNet.com, analysed in-depth statistics from security research company Secunia as a basis for his research. He found that Apple’s latest operating system, Mac OS X, faced more critical flaws than Windows XP and Vista combined.
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Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site tonight.The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade. Previously, several thousand users were given access to test builds of SP3 only by Microsoft’s invitation.
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Microsoft plans to bundle a cryptographically flawed pseudo random number generator in its upcoming service pack for Windows Vista. Cryptographers have expressed concern about a possible backdoor in a standard for random number generators approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this year.
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