[Jatin]

Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, Ed Bott did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. His data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where he tallied up security bulletins rated Critical or Important for the two Windows versions. The result? Vista had an overwhelming edge over XP, with a mere 14 security updates compared to 41 for XP with Service Pack 2 during the same period.

He repeated that previous experiment using data from November 2007 through July 2008. The totals are as follows (in both cases, assume that the most recent service pack is installed, with Vista SP1 counted beginning in March 2008 and XP SP3 in May 2008):

* Windows XP: 23
* Windows Vista: 19

The grand total for the period from November 2006 through July 2008, again assuming the most recent service pack is installed:

* Windows XP: 64
* Windows Vista: 33

Over the 21-month period, that’s a monthly average of roughly 1.5 Critical or Important security updates for Vista and 3 for XP.

Source: Ed Bott

[Villain]

Devil's Advocate here...
well if you happen to remember also, 21 months after XP was released, it was not as great as 2k, and same thing for 98SE vs 2k, and YES, i AM skipping over Windows Virus Edition, AKA Millenium.
it just takes time.

now, as for playing fair...
however, the funny part that i will acknowledge is that Vista was supposedly built all around Security, and it is, it really is. it is called the "Annoying popup factor"

[myhoter]

[LemmingofOne]

Go Vista! Vista may have many annoying things about it but it really is more secure; at least for the idiot people like me. Don't ask how, but I recently got the same exact virus on both my XP and Vista laptops and guess which OS fought back with a vengeance? Vista, baby! Of course, that doesn't mean Vista didn't get a little sick; oh it did: 60 infected files. But XP got over 110 infected files and it took every scanner and program I had just to control my browser from opening up every 20 seconds. I had Vista up and running again after just a few scans and 2 restarts.
7 scans, 3 restarts, 2 System Restores later My XP still has some issues ( and yes I am aware that restore points can get infected; I cleaned them out. BTW, Vista's restore points did not get infected; XP's did.)

I'm not trying to knock XP. I love XP. I believe that no one should upgrade to Vista if you already have XP; when you're ready for Vista just buy a computer with Vista already installed so you can avoid the hassle.

There are pros and cons to both Vista and XP but I love Vista a little more. ( I never thought I'd say that)

[ZDSMaster]

lol Even the picture in Jatin's post proves the vista is more secure because the windows flag is inside an orb ( ) in vista, and the flag in xp is just sitting there.

[Gragier_521]

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it is called the "Annoying popup factor"

You can put UAC in silent mode.

[phoenix_abhi]

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lol Even the picture in Jatin's post proves the vista is more secure because the windows flag is inside an orb ( windows.gif ) in vista, and the flag in xp is just sitting there.

This post has been edited by phoenix_abhi: 28 July 2008 - 06:09 PM

[RickSOLET]

Vista is great!

[ProjectRAGE]

Well shit I hope Vista is better then XP, isnt that the damn point?


Lame story, who gives a hoot. Vista will always suck compared to Linux, cold heart truth, truth hurts.

Xp and Ubuntu ftw!

[Villain]

actually i did myself a favor and turned the damn thing off.
hell, even linux, who perfected the "Not an admin, type in password to run this admin function" was not as annoying as the UAC is.

i only had to type in the admin pass in linux when i was going to do a system wide update, not when i was addin a new app, uninstallling it, ect...

now, i DO like vista, but the UAC is just way to damn annoying. it is Windows trying to be Linux. and failing.

[xaznx2345]

Well, its a good thing that they PUT the option to disable the UAC then right?

[adrynalyne]

Solo, on Jul 29 2008, 04:15 PM, said:

actually i did myself a favor and turned the damn thing off.
hell, even linux, who perfected the "Not an admin, type in password to run this admin function" was not as annoying as the UAC is.

i only had to type in the admin pass in linux when i was going to do a system wide update, not when i was addin a new app, uninstallling it, ect...

now, i DO like vista, but the UAC is just way to damn annoying. it is Windows trying to be Linux. and failing.

I've always had to use sudo or su to remove or add an application

ProjectRAGE, on Jul 29 2008, 03:56 PM, said:

Lame story, who gives a hoot.

Apprently you do, because you read it.

Doh!