It has been very obvious ever since Vista’s debut that it is Microsoft’s most secure operating system to date. But just because it is the most secure doesn’t mean that you should feel completely secure using it. Malware threats will continuously evolve, and if Vista can’t stay up with that, than a lot of its security features will be useless.

In his swan song to an annual gathering of 15,000 computer security experts here Tuesday, Microsoft Chairman

Bill Gates

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Bill Gates said the software giant has made giant strides in security.

But he acknowledged that threats from malicious computer code and the proliferation of devices connected to the Internet have made security a moving target.

“Computer security is 100 times better today than in 2002,” Gates said in an interview after he and Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, delivered a joint speech. “But there has been an evolution in spam and phishing (fraudulent e-mail designed to filch personal data), and you can’t apply Band-Aids to the problem.”[more]

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