New Windows Small Business Server Flaw Discovered

What? Windows exceeded financial expectations for the last period? Windows Vista sales are going high? I don't want to be rude, but I only have one answer to the above: so what? As always, their marketing department gets all my respect for being able to sell in large quantities a product that's far from being the best on the market, and having an incredibly low customer satisfaction rate! Today, news emerged about another hole in one operating system from Microsoft, and this time we're talking about a product for the Enterprise market!


First of all, I have to say that reports regarding the flaw I am going to tell you about today appeared related to other Microsoft operating systems, including Vista. Anyway, being given the fact that only a few companies switched to Vista and didn't get back to XP, I am not worried about Vista now... The problem today is extremely serious, because the flaw that threatens Windows Small Business Server now was discovered some time ago and already patched on Windows XP and Vista.

While the flaw described by Microsoft here was considered to be "critical" for other Windows systems, on Windows Small Business Server, they only said this problem is "important", and not "critical".

Being given all the above, the interesting part is that either Windows Small Business Server is the most secure Windows system available, and a critical flaw affecting Vista and XP is harder to exploit on this operating system, either Microsoft tries to minimize the unexplained delay in providing the patch by minimizing its importance.

Anyway, no matter what's the truth, I am sure we're going to have an interesting year when it comes to IT security, since operating systems that once had a very small user base (Mac OS X and Linux, of course) are becoming more and more popular, and so become targeted by malware more often than before...