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Vista 7 Vulnerable to Latest “Critical” Flaws

Patches integrated quickly before RTM

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Summary: Microsoft uses a familiar stunt to pretend that Vista 7 is more secure and then makes a lot of noise about it

NOTHING will change when it comes to computer security once Vista 7 is finally released. We wrote about the subject in:



Using what Ryan has called a "sneaky" trick, Microsoft hid the fact that Vista 7 too was vulnerable to the latest bucket of "critical" patches.

In his own words: "There's articles describing Windows 7 RTM as safe from the Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Vista and XP this month, but that's why Microsoft made 7600.16385 the RTM, they integrated those patches right before they declared it final, then said it was safe from the bugs that affected XP and Vista. 7600.16384 was almost the RTM, but they made a new build just for these."

“Microsoft hid the fact that Vista 7 too was vulnerable to the latest bucket of "critical" patches.”In short, he argues: "They applied all the patches, called that build the RTM, then said the RTM was unaffected. Then [they] released a press release patting Windows 7 on the back for being more secure, even though at least half those bugs affected it too. You wouldn't notice this unless you had been following the Windows 7 build process pretty closely.

"Watch what happens on Patch Tuesday in September and October and see how many of those bugs affect Windows 7 cause they can't declare RTM again.

"They're still patching Windows XP after 8 years. What does that tell you? I fired it up on my other laptop yesterday and had 9 security updates waiting. Well, after 8 years and ~4,000 patches you'd expect them to have tied up most of the loose ends. They said Windows XP was secure when it launched and they are *still* patching it routinely."

“Great talker, great liar.”

--French Proverb



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