Vista and XP vulnerability report for 1 year

The report has been issues compiling the starting year's worth of security vulnerability found in Windows Vista comparing with Windows XP.

Here are a few highlights :

Metric	Windows Vista (year 1)	Windows XP (year 1)
Vulnerabilities fixed	36	65
Security Updates	17	30
Patch Events	9	26
Weeks with at least 1 Patch Event	9	25

These figures may be interesting until you include a cost saving implications of reduced patches. According to a customer, each patch has cost him £30K, so reduction in patches would have delivered a direct £480,000 this year saving to him running Windows Vista over Windows XP. Then there is the incalculable reduction in corporate risk from this reduction in vulnerabilities.

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