Windows Vista requires more patches than XP
Microsoft is touting Vista as being more secure than XP but its own data shows the contrary to be true. Windows Vista has more security holes left open than Windows XP does. Six months after Vista released, Microsoft has left more publicly announced Vista security holes and bugs unpatched than Windows XP had during the same time period.
According to
ComputerWorld UK
, Microsoft has patched 12 out of 27 bugs present in Vista during the six months since it released. On the other hand XP had 36 out of 39 vulnerabilities patched in the same time frame after release. From this standpoint, Vista does require more patches.
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