Comments on: Windows 7 the most secure OS http://www.win7connect.com/news/windows-7-the-most-secure-os.html win7connect - A website dedicated to Microsoft Windows 7 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: FalconFour http://www.win7connect.com/news/windows-7-the-most-secure-os.html/comment-page-1#comment-6 FalconFour Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:25:24 +0000 http://www.win7connect.com/?p=70#comment-6 Every version of Windows is more "secure" than the last, but the painful truth is that the more so-called "security" you add, the more user inconvenience you add as well. UAC is a prime example of that. The more you try to confirm every action, the more users will just learn to click "yes" to everything. Windows XP is the most secure OS in my opinion, simply because it's so straightforward and easy to keep tabs on. Vista (and hence Win7) has way too many places to hide things, and a convoluted new system for managing system files, that makes it all too easy to stash a virus in the system. In XP, everything is transparent and understandable, and easy to maintain. Win7 did a bit to help make things more transparent and easier to manage, but it's still a bit Vista-clumsy. And of course MS will say that (insert newest version of Windows) is the most secure/fast/efficient/productive version of Windows ever. They've said that since the beginning of Windows (except Win2K, I think, which didn't have "advertising" banners during Setup). It's just PR fluff... what the final word comes down to is if it actually holds true in the real world ;) Every version of Windows is more “secure” than the last, but the painful truth is that the more so-called “security” you add, the more user inconvenience you add as well. UAC is a prime example of that. The more you try to confirm every action, the more users will just learn to click “yes” to everything. Windows XP is the most secure OS in my opinion, simply because it’s so straightforward and easy to keep tabs on. Vista (and hence Win7) has way too many places to hide things, and a convoluted new system for managing system files, that makes it all too easy to stash a virus in the system. In XP, everything is transparent and understandable, and easy to maintain. Win7 did a bit to help make things more transparent and easier to manage, but it’s still a bit Vista-clumsy.

And of course MS will say that (insert newest version of Windows) is the most secure/fast/efficient/productive version of Windows ever. They’ve said that since the beginning of Windows (except Win2K, I think, which didn’t have “advertising” banners during Setup). It’s just PR fluff… what the final word comes down to is if it actually holds true in the real world ;)

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