Vista News August 16, 2007
PCWorld:Microsoft Microsoft Reveals First Vista Gadget Bugs
Microsoft patched several Windows Vista gadgets this week, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications. Microsoft Corp. Tuesday patched several Windows Vista gadgets, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications, prompting one researcher to mark the date as the real “arrival of the next-generation of vulnerabilities.”
Forrester: Businesses Still Saying No to Vista
Software incompatibility, the need for hardware upgrades, and comfort with existing versions of Microsoft Windows are all causing businesses that once planned to roll out Windows Vista as fast as consumers to put off their deployments, according to Forrester Research Inc.
A bump on the road to Windows Vista
“IT managers are finding themselves pulling back their initial Windows Vista deployment plans,” Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray said in a report issued this week.
Buggy ATI Driver Leaves Vista Open to Attack
Microsoft is working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops and which leaves the Vista kernel open to arbitrary memory writes by malicious driver authors.
Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista
“The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008′ official sponsor) installing XP on it’s machines to run the Olympic Games’ vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games.”
Microsoft tightens Vista kernel defenses, updates PatchGuard
Microsoft seems to be doing something to harden its Windows Vista Patch Protection defenses ????? PatchGuard, which has issued an update through Windows Update as a high-priority download.