Oh no he didn't! Microsoft's COO says Vista SP2 is the "most secure OS on the planet"

By on Apr 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Software April 13, 2009

You know when you’re talking about a subject you’re really passionate about and you start to head down a dangerous path? In the back of your mind, you know it’s going to come back and bite you in the ass but you don’t care at that particular moment because you’re so intoxicated with said passion… So you throw caution to the wind and keep going. Ahem. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner had this little gem to say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week:

Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we’ve ever built. It’s also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard. It’s the safest and most secure OS on the planet today. Everything that we’ve learned in Vista will be leveraged in Windows 7, but certainly when we broke a lot of the compatibility issues to lock down user account controls, to lock down the ability to manipulate states and all the things, that was a very painful process for us to grow through, but we had to do it. And the reason that Windows 7 will be successful is because of the pain we took on Vista. Because from a compatibility standpoint, if it works on Vista, it will work on Windows 7. If it doesn’t work on Vista, it won’t work on Windows 7.

We’re not even going to touch this one, but please, feel free to discuss it amongst yourselves in the comments section.

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  • iphone home

    i doubt it will fix the issue with DX10 games crashing all the time cough!!! crysis Cough!!!!

  • Ron

    Did this guy pay his taxes? Got be a dem, like the VP who is a little unsure of the truth.

  • Mike

    Yes, several seconds to ACTIVATE and RUN an exploit which the hacker/developer said himself took days to prepare and research BEFORE the competition.

  • yss

    @MadMike

    Unless your laptop is magical, you (and a fired admin) played a bigger part in getting the passwords than the OS(s).

  • DaFD

    @yss
    depends on how secure the passwords used and the tools at MM’s disposal.

  • MarkM

    So of course to prove his point Turner will place his personal Social Security Number, his VISA account numbers, and his bank account numbers all in a Word document on his computer, publish its IP address to the world, and challenge hackers to have at it.

  • EraserXIV

    funniest thing in the world. this was probably posted this with the expectation that people would BASH on microsoft.

    fail. next time don’t be so eager to post “anti-microsoft” content just because it’s the “cool thing” to do. open your eyes, not everyone is as shortsighted as you are.

  • H.N.I.C.

    CONFLICKER…ACTIVATE!!!!!!!!!

  • JT

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    Hold on, hold on….ok

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Janus09

    Hacking contests have proven Vista to be more secure than OS X, but not the most secure in the world.

    Half right.

  • DaFD

    In other news: Confliker has infected the University of Utah, even the medical section.

  • 123abc

    There is no guard against dumb users clicking on socially engineered exploits. Even with UAC in Windows or the Mac and Linux equivalent of it, if the user is dumb enough to click on the “Your machine is infected with a virus, click here to fix it”, you can be sure they will click the “Allow” to the security prompt.

    Viruses and Trojans don’t scare me. Rootkits do.

    As for getting passwords from windows machines, the same can be done with Macs provided you have a Mac install disk. You won’t get the actual password, but you are able to reset the password which, in the end, gives you the same result. This can be done in about 2 minutes.

  • 123abc

    @Mike

    only several days? Wow, forget OS X. I would have more faith in that OS if it took weeks to find an exploit.

  • http://www.jphotog.com Eric

    When was the last time a rational statement has been issued from Microsoft when one of their echo chamber denizens gets on his high horse and bleats out such nonsense.

    First of all, it’s not even out. Those hacking contests are smoke and mirrors. They take months to prepare to hack an OS (meanwhile Windows 7 isn’t out long enough for them to get a hack going) and they the scream about how OS X was hacked in seconds. Uh, no, it was hacked in months – after they relax the rules last year and with the rules relaxed from the beginning this year. So that’s a discredited claim.

    Last of all, Windows has thousands and thousands of patches for every single patch on OS X. And most of OS X’s patches are from BSD UNIX, Apache, and other very secure but human-created software. OS X itself is made by humans. Guess what? That means it’s not perfect. But it’s a whale of a lot more secure than Windows by design. Just because you Apple-haters slap your hands over your ears and shout “la la la la, I can’t hear you, la la la la!” doesn’t make your claims that OS X is no more secure true.

    But, to get down to nuts and bolts, what is the most secure OS in the world? A hardened version of Solaris. That Microsoft could possibly claim that Windows 7 is the most secure begs the question of just how exactly stupid do they think the American public is. The second-most secure OS is OpenBSD. Not the same as FreeBSD which OS X is based on. But close. BSD itself in all its flavors is more secure than Windows. But OpenBSD might even give Sun’s special secure version of Solaris a run for the money. And I’m sure there are some proprietary operating systems that aren’t available to the public which are very secure. But for an OS that you can buy for your enterprise, Solaris and BSD are tops for security. And that, by the way, is why OS X is so secure.

    We shall see just how secure Windows 7 is when it’s finalized and released. Any claim before that point is mere vaporware and the desperate scrambling for credibility that we see more and more (unsuccessfully) coming out of Redmond.

  • DaFD

    Eric, you do know that you will never change human psychology, right?
    Most people will believe whatever their id (eg: job working for Microsoft), ego (eg: the so-called Windows Fanboys), and superego dictates them to no matter what.

  • Raul

    Leave it to the public to decide who has the most safest OS

    most likely it will be OSX

  • gabmac

    i dont kown how to say it but…a intalled vista in my VMware and 20 min after..cha chan…my first virus…. but in my mac after 12 years..nothing yet…so… it is clear?? is not?……….jejejej

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