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Microsoft Bets Big on Vista Security
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Microsoft’s Vista developers can’t catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security
researchers that old code in Windows was creating security risks, the software giant decided to rewrite key parts of the operating system. The result? Last week, Symantec published a report suggesting that all of this new code will introduce new security problems.
"The network stack in Windows Vista was rewritten from the ground up. In deciding to rewrite the stack, Microsoft has removed a large body of tried and tested code and replaced it," Symantec wrote, noting that it found vulnerabilities in the Windows Vista networking software. Analysis: Microsoft Bets Big on Vista Security - Yahoo! News
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