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Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista recorded about half as many vulnerabilities in its first full year of availability as Windows XP did in its opening 12 months, company security executives said yesterday. In an update to earlier 90-day and six-month reports, Jeff Jones, a security strategy director in the company’s trustworthy computing group, cited vulnerability and patch statistics to show that Vista logged 66 bugs between November 2006 and November 2007, 30 of which had not yet been patched. In the first 52 weeks Windows XP was in use, on the other hand, it was pegged with 129 vulnerabilities, 54 of which were not fixed by the end of that 12-month period.
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Microsoft Corp. today said it will issue eight security updates next week, five tagged as “critical” to patch Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. One of the critical Windows updates scheduled for next Tuesday affects every version of the operating system Microsoft supports, including the just-released Service Pack 1 for Vista and the newest server operating system, Windows Server 2008.
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Microsoft takes aim at 26 vulnerabilities this month, spread across 11 patches, 6 of which carry a “critical” rating. The sheer number of vulnerabilities, especially those on the critical side of the scale, isn’t lost on security watchers. Indeed, Microsoft hasn’t tackled as many vulnerabilities in a single Patch Tuesday in at least two years.
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When you work with computers, some things are inevitable. You can push them aside, but sooner or later they confront you. I’m talking, of course, about Windows Vista. You still can buy Windows XP, but the majority of off-the-shelf PCs now come with some variation of Vista. Although there’s a list of things about Vista that infuriate me - lack of stability, compatibility and intuitive design, among others - I have to admit that certain aspects of Vista’s interface are quite useful. Call it the computer equivalent of the Stockholm syndrome.
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