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THE SECURITY COMPARISON
Just because SECURITY is the key thing that one thinks about when talking about the VISTA that is why we will consider this topic and give it priority. The headlines have, since always covered the topics like the User Account Control and the Internet Explorer Protected Mode but they have not always come up there the way MICROSOFT wants it to. UAC has been criticized for its confirmation dialogs that after a point annoy you till the extremes. Moving a selected file into a protected folder or enabling or disabling multiple network connections quickly are things that need to be tried.
Vista is still not fully secure whereas the UAC that s nothing but a “in your face” clearer view of the controls of the account of the user built in the Windows NT since the start. The Vista, for security has other documented ways that use the Internet Explorer, the security token and the exploiting the “deprecated administrator” status.
Windows XP has been implemented with the UAC by many of the engineers by not permitting the users that use the domain to function as the administrators of the local areas and also those who write their own “elevation” utilities to use it in a well defined manner. It is considered that these “locked down” XP systems provide more security as compared to the UAC of the Vista as they are prone to the privilege of the elevation exploit. You will see the need force the users to work with a non-admin account to get the vista version at par with the xp version.
Several security things like the updated firewall and esoteric, internal fixes such as the Address Space Layout Randomization are quite a bit interesting but not compelling in any ways. For the mobile users, the IT shops implemented a hardware firewall solution or a third-party software. Vista cannot even thrawt the phenomenon that the address-based code will require social engineering to put them to work.

THE CONCLUSION
Finally, from the point of view of security, Windows XP is unbeatable as most of the issues put up by Vista are resolved under Windows XP by the use of the in-house applications or third-party tools.

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