Vista's Security, A Problem?

A new report regarding Vista's success on the enterprise market blankets the OS with doubts and brings into discussion the much praised security.

A study carried out by the Yankee Group warns that the Vista security features might prevent companies from switching to it.

The conclusions of the Yankee Group report are the result of the feedback received from a large number of users who have been testing all the betas so far and have said that the security features could scare administrators and users away.

According to BetaNews, the report's author, Andy Jaquith specifically pointed to the user account feature as an area of greatest concern. The way the feature was implemented in that release was too strict and poses a potential problem, Jaquith warned.

This latest report comes to complete the image created by two previous Gartner studies. The first one concluded that for many large companies, it would not be possible to fully justify the cost of a full forklift migration of all PCs.

The second one, which has been criticized by many experts, said that Microsoft could delay Vista again, Gartner believing that Windows Vista will be available somewhere in the second quarter of 2007. This would be due to the necessary time between the Beta 2 and the final release.