Microsoft has beaten the old drum of Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system on the market since the release of the platform in January 2007. But of course this perspective is part truth part marketing strategy. Microsoft, Windows and security are not concepts that mix well with one another. This is why the main focus with Vista was to deliver an operating system as close as possible to the level of being bulletproof.
Security is an ongoing process, according to Michael Howard, the Senior Security Program Manager in the Security Engineering group at Microsoft, and the leader of the Security Development Lifecycle, the development methodology and model which produced Windows Vista. And in this context, Vista raised the standards for security. As far, the threat environment failed to respond. Sure, Vista's just over 7% of the operating system market – a position equivalent in obscurity to that of Mac OS X or Linux –, along with the additional security mitigations introduced, contributed to an undeveloped threat environment.
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