Opinion: Unsatisfied with Microsoft's boring, conservative claims, critics invent new and unreasonable ones that they can blame the company for not meeting. As I see it, the biggest question in the security business this year is how well Windows Vista will hold up against what will be the most concerted attack in the industry's relatively short history. The standards for a fair analysis of this question are more complicated than many would have you believe: Vista doesn't have to be perfect in order to hold up well. As even Microsoft will tell you, if you actually listen to what the company says, nothing's perfect, and a big part of hardening a product against attack is to be prepared for when a failure occurs.
This is why you keep hearing from Microsoft about "Defense in Depth." The idea is that a failure in one form of protection can be mitigated by other protections. And these protections don't stop with what is provided in Windows Vista. Any reasonable person, business or consumer, will add further security software to Windows Vista. There is a widespread consensus in the security industry that Vista is a more secure Windows and, for what it's worth, the most secure version of Windows ever. Of course, they'll tell you that's not enough, and of course they're right.
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