I.T. Vibe - Symantec reports Vista 'will be less stable than XP'

Symantec has issued a report which warns of instability and security risks in early releases of Microsofts latest Vista.

Symantecs report was produced after examining Microsoft's latest Vista release and the issues raised are related to the new networking technology, which has several security flaws.

The researchers at Symantec concluded that Vista could be less stable than Windows XP, at least for the immediate future.

It is worth noting that the tests were conducted on beta code which is designed for testing purposes only and bugs identified during this process are fixed with each build.

Comment # 1 on 20 July 2006 at 15:07 by STEVES

Shoot - ... it's still in Beta, Symantec better watch out issuing statemnts like that can get them in hot water on a product that is not finished yet.. heck... any reporter issuing pre-judgement usually has an ulterior motive.

Comment # 2 on 04 August 2006 at 15:29 by Anonymous

Maybe Symantec should write some anti-virus that doesn't crash, use up large amounts of system resources and refuse to uninstall before writing reports about stability and security. Maybe they tested Vista while they had their anti-virus running?

Comment # 3 on 25 October 2006 at 14:07 by Anonymous

when will ppl realise how bloody awful symantec products are? even my washing machine repairman was saying how messed up it had made his system lol.

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