Microsoft Windows Vista security

Microsoft Windows Vista security Open-source based.

In a not-too surprising move, Microsoft turned to Open-source (read BSD/Linux) methods to secure the next version of Windows (Vista).

Microsoft has used other Open-source methods or software in Windows, such as the protocol of how to communicate on the Internet (called TCP/IP).

Yet Microsoft execs have gone so far as to have called the Open-source Linux a cancer and virus-like in the not-to-distant past.

I’m sure it’s only a survival mechanism that makes Microsoft execs do such things, but for their stock holders, and from the slide Microsoft’s stocks have been on since 2002, I hope the Open-source method they use in Vista works better than the Microsoft method they used in Windows XP.