Given the quote:
"The flaw is in something else, but the inherent nature of Java allowed us to get around the protections that Microsoft had in place," he said in an interview shortly after he claimed his prize Friday. "This could affect Linux or Mac OS X."
It seems that the title shouldn't be so much that Vista was breached, but that Java was. It's a matter of personal programming choice as to whether you use that to own the Vista or the Linux laptop.

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