How do you know a fully patched Windows box would have been compromised quicker? Windows Vista so far has a very impressive record when it comes to vulnerabilities, especially when compared to the first 90 days of other operating systems including OSX.
You were quite right to call me out on that. That was a gratuitous thing to write.
That was simply a lazy thing to write. I have not had a lot of exposure yet to Windows Vista, so in that respect, I was talking out my butt.
Of course, I don’t see anyone in industry tripping over themselves to get it installed onsite, which tells me it must be offerering simple incremental increases in security over XP, or they would be jumping on it.