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Study finds Vista more vulnerable than Windows 2000

heise.de
May 14, 2008
        
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Security service provider PCTools has published a study which found that Windows Vista is more susceptible to contamination than Windows 2000. The study analyses feedback from ThreatFire, a behaviour-based contaminant blocker. The study found that last year ThreatFire found an average of 586... [read full story]                    

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More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP

 infoworld.com May 16, 2008
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Windows Vista vs Windows XP SP2 Vulnerability Report 2007

 technet.com May 14, 2008
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More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP

infoworld.com
May 16, 2008
        

InfoWorld's petition to keep the popular Windows version on the market has passed a new milestone In the four months since InfoWorld asked businesses and individuals to sign a petition at SaveXP.com asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP for sale beyond the planned June 30 general end-of-sales date,...

Will XP have the last hurrah?

indiatimes.com
May 16, 2008
        

Microsoft's decision to pull out Windows XP from the shelves has triggered an outpouring of support for the company's most popular operating system (OS). Though Microsoft may phase out sales of XP, we bring you up and close to the users' arguments for XP, as also prepare you to a scenario sans XP.

Developers favour XP over Vista

vnunet.com
May 16, 2008
        

Guy Dixon, vnunet.com, Friday 16 May 2008 at 10:32:00 Latest Microsoft OS fails to woo community Software developers are still writing applications for Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Linux in preference to Windows Vista more than 16 months after its worldwide release....> Read the full article

Microsoft hints at longer life for Windows XP

dvhardware.net
May 16, 2008
        

A couple of days ago Steve Ballmer hinted Microsoft may extend the life of Windows XP:The latest news comes from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, reacting to criticism at a recent news conference, who said "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we can always...

Developers Target XP over Vista by Wide Margin

bigblog.com
May 15, 2008
        

Just 8 percent of North American developers are writing Vista apps; about 49 percent develop for XP, survey says. By Heather Havenstein May 15, 2008 — Computerworld — Stymied by a lack of user interest in Microsoft Vista, many North American developers are still not targeting the new operating...

                   
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Microsoft Still Shooting at XP SP2 with the Vista Gun – No Kill

softpedia.com
May 15, 2008
        

Even with the general availability of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Microsoft is still stuck gunning for Windows XP SP2 with the Windows Vista RTM "arsenal". But despite having sold in excess of 140 million licenses by the end of March 2008, Vista has failed to produce a kill, or to impact XP's install...

                   

Windows XP's Afterlife

washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2008
        

When Windows Vista shipped more than 15 months ago, I really thought I was through writing about Windows XP. Having written dozens of stories about XP by then, I had no problem with waving goodbye to the topic. And yet here I am, writing yet again about an operating system to which I first...

                   

Sieht so aus als ob Vista ein kurzes Leben erwartet...

administrator.de
May 15, 2008
        

Keep XP fresh until Windows 7 arrives By Scott Dunn When Windows XP was released, wireless routers were rare, few cell phones supported e-mail, and YouTube was just a gleam in some PayPal employees' eyes. But like a fabled perpetual motion machine, XP keeps on going and going — and if you follow...

                   

Shortsighted Nostalgia for XP

washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2008
        

Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page D01 By the strictest definition, Windows XP has been dead since Jan. 30, 2007 -- the day its replacement, Windows Vista, arrived in stores and XP promptly vanished from most new computers. Vista's issues -- its steep hardware requirements, its strict anti-piracy...

                   

Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista - Which Did Better in 2007?

csoonline.com
May 14, 2008
        

You've been hearing the stories about how people just want to stick with Windows XP SP2, but Windows Vista security is supposed to be better. Do you wonder how many vulnerabilities and patches each one had in 2007? In the wake of my Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report, which compared the...

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