FUD Theater: Microsoft, Vista, Vendors and the Media

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Kenneth F. Belva writes the column Perspectives of a Security Maverick

By Kenneth F. Belva posted in General • January 11, 2007 • 7:26am

Vista is the most secure MS OS ever, but there will still be security issues.

Stephen Toulouse (of Microsoft) takes this very reasonable expectation of Vista. I had noticed that Michael Howard took a similar stance on his blog too. More power to Microsoft.

Given the iDefense Vista Security challenge, one must ask if it’s for marketing — read, FUD theater — purposes.

Why did iDefense not conduct the challenge on the development builds? Then these issues may have been fixed for the final build.

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