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Good and bad news for Vista networking
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
It’s one of those bad-news, good-news situations for Microsoft’s coming operating system, 
Windows Vista.
In a paper released this week by Symantec (the owner of SecurityFocus), two researchers analyzed the new networking stack in Windows Vista and found several classes of vulnerabilities. Overall, the researchers concluded that the move to a new code base for Vista’s networking stack will likely mean that, in the short term, the software could be less stable than the Windows XP stack.
"In deciding to rewrite the stack, Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it with freshly written code, complete with new corner cases and defects," security researchers Tim Newsham and Jim Hoagland said in the paper. "This may provide for a more stable networking stack in the long term, but stability will suffer in the short term." Good and bad news for Vista networking
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