An interesting and hot discussion is happening right now in reaction to a news story about Microsoft Vista. Microsoft released data that shows Vista more secure than XP. The company’s latest security report shows that fewer new vulnerabilities were found in its software in first half of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 and that exploits for Vista are less than those for XP. Microsoft reported 77 vulnerabilities from January to June compared to 116 for the last six months of 2007, according to the company’s fifth Security Intelligence Report.
But readers are saying, “so what?” The point, they say, isn’t that Vista is full of security holes, but that it is full of bugs on its own. The discussion also points out that Vista’s reputation is so sullied, that next-to-nothing will improve the brand’s goodwill. Any IT team that plans to deploy Vista as a corporate standard will need to take this into account and do some preemptive marketing to “sell” users on the expected benefits. If not, every time an application has an error, Vista — and the IT team that “forced” it upon the workforce — will be blamed.
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