Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Vista was released to the general public during the week, and already a security issue has been discovered. I wouldn’t call it a remote exploit as such, more of a “that might be funny to mess around with” kind of issue.
Still it doesn’t surprise me. Vista was released to businesses a couple of months ago, and release candidates have been available to beta testers for several months before that, so the people who are interested in finding flaws have had plenty of time to do so.
Even though Vista was released a couple of years later than originally envisaged by Microsoft, and even though it is the latest and greatest home OS available, I won’t be rushing out to get it. Like any new product, it’s better to wait a while until the major bugs are found, patches released and rolled into a service pack.
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