Microsoft has recently announced that the hottest version of company’s well-admired Windows operating system is been dealing with lesser widely disclosed security troubles in its initial year on the market than comparatively with Windows XP. This announcement was made by Jeff Jones based on a report, a security strategy director in the company’s Trustworthy Computing group. Throughout this shift Microsoft desires to show basically that its believes on redesigning the security architecture and as well adding up fresh, strong security features to its operating system have ultimately paid off.

In addition the report also exposed that the alteration that Microsoft made in the method it manages patching appeared in fewer work for system administrators on Windows Vista when compared to Windows XP. Windows Vista Security Blog says that after a year on market, the contentious operating system has had only 30 unfixed and 36 fixed flaws, which is nearly half of Windows XP’s that has 54 unfixed and 68 fixed security vulnerabilities in the initial year. The company as well reports that these flaws were less rigorous than those Windows XP underwent.

Microsoft gives credits to two of its features for the improvements in security in Windows Vista one is IE Protected Mode and another is User Access Control. These great features are in fact said to defend users’ computers also when malicious code works. Microsoft’s current announcement’s reason is quite obvious: the company tries to encourage people that Windows Vista, which got in heavy criticism over bugs and usability troubles, is far secure than Windows XP.

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