One-third of enterprises will start company-wide roll-outs of Windows Vista in 2008 as Microsoft begins to phase out support for Windows XP, analyst firm Forrester has predicted. Many businesses have been reluctant to deploy the new operating system until it has proved its stability and because of a relative lack of compatible applications.
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The reviews are in–and they don’t matter one damn bit. Microsoft’s Windows Vista went on sale a year ago this month, and despite poor marks from the tech press and heaping helpings of scorn from Mac and Linux aficionados, the operating system has turned into a money machine for Microsoft.
Microsoft plans to issue two security patches next Tuesday, one of which earns the dreaded rating of critical, in this year’s first edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The critical update covers a flaw that allows the remote execution of malicious software on vulnerable clients, including Windows Vista systems. The patch is also a critical update for Windows XP. The second update, rated as “important”, covers an unspecified privilege elevation flaw.



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