Symantec claims Vista less stable than Windows XP
Windows Vista could be less stable than XP, and prey to a whole new set of security issues, a report from Symantec has suggested. With the operating system still in beta - and not due to ship until January 2007 at the earliest - Symantec?s researchers examined the part of the software that handled networking in build 5270 of the software. They concluded that since large parts of Vista had been rewritten from scratch, it had introduced a new set of problems.
"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," CNet News reported the company as saying in Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview. Although these problems have subsequently been fixed in the more recent build 5384. L33tdawg: Let's not forget that Vista is still in BETA and XP having been around for ages is already sporting SERVICE PACK 2! I think ANYONE would tell you XP with SP2 would be more stable than a beta operating system no?
