Microsoft security strategy director Jeff Jones this week published a report comparing the security vulnerability profile for various high-profile operating systems in the 90 days of their existence. Surprisingly, Vista came out in front: Vista had 5 vulnerabilities in its first 90 days, one of them fixed, and one pending with a High severity rating. [...]

Yesterday (29th), Windows Vista went on sale to consumers.  For many Microsoft subscribers (mostly businesses), it has been available since December. A couple things to consider before jumping into Vista: Make sure your Anti Virus solution works with Vista. Windows Vista’s firewall is configured by default to allow all outbound connections.  You may want to tighten [...]

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 (hereafter referred to as "NM3") was one of the first applications that worked on released version of Windows Vista, (both 32 and 64 bit). Weeks after release MS uncovered an issue with NM3 running on Windows Vista. Specifically, MS had a new driver on Windows Vista that was forced to expire [...]

These step-by-step guides will assist IT Professionals in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. These guides will also provide step-by-step information on how to control device installation using Device Management and Installation (DMI) and manage ADMX files. There are also step-by-step guides to help you protect data using BitLocker Drive Encryption, to administer the TPM [...]

Microsoft posted a new build of Monad last week. It’s available through the Microsoft Download Center. This means no NDA (which betaplace had) and no need to download the whole WinFX SDK. And, it’s Beta 2, a newer build than both of those. Improvements include COM support, which was in a long time ago but [...]