{"id":21,"date":"2007-03-22T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T01:57:38","slug":"comparing-vistas-security-with-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/comparing-vistas-security-with-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Vista&#8217;s Security with Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has worked hard on securing Windows Vista because it has been criticized in the past for not properly securing its previous operating systems. Jeff Jones has published a Windows Vista 90 day vulnerability report that compares Windows Vista&#8217;s record with Windows XP, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell and Apple. Here are the numbers in a chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Vista_first_90_days.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Vista_first_90_days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\/\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because almost 90% of the personal computers in the world run Microsoft&#8217;s Windows, it is encouraging to see that Windows Vista has much tighter security compared to its predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>There will always be critics who will blame Microsoft regardless of how secure their operating is. Windows Vista is not going to be an exception. I have already seen some technical experts encouraging people to turn off the User Account Control (UAC) feature, which is not a wise idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has worked hard on securing Windows Vista because it has been criticized in the past for not properly securing its previous operating systems. Jeff Jones has published a Windows Vista 90 day vulnerability report that compares Windows Vista&#8217;s record with Windows XP, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell and Apple. Here are the numbers in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}