Symantec claims Vista more insecure than XP

Researchers at Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec examined the new networking technology in recent test releases of Vista, Microsoft’s next major operating system release, according to the report. They found several security bugs and determined that Vista’s networking technology will be less stable, at least in the short run, than Windows XP’s, the report said.

This is obviously not a good thing, since Microsoft is promising the most secure version of Windows yet. This will not likely affect the Jan 2006 release date, but it isn’t going to look good on Microsoft to release with this knowledge.