Microsoft’s long-awaited Windows Vista release Thursday for business customers will get more than just the passing attention of network administrators. That’s because hackers will be eagerly waiting to do what hackers do best: start some mischief. The software that took $7 billion, five years, and armies of programmers is now going to be the target of hacker attacks looking to prove a point: that no Microsoft software is secure.
We can hope that the worst bugs found before now and February will be fixed before regular consumers go to install. If Vistas state of security is anything like XP though, it shouldn’t be long before we see regular lists of “critical risk” bugs fixed.