Test Center Tracker: Who’s the most insecure OS of them all?

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Feb 2, 20071 min

Debunking security myths: Roger A. Grimes, InfoWorld's Security Adviser, counters critics who declare Windows the most difficult OS to keep secure. To that, Grimes says, "Unless you're running OpenBSD, this statement is usually untrue. All of those other OSes end up with a fair amount of published vulnerabilities that need to be patched." See DEMO run: If you couldn't make it to DEMO this year, fear not; you nee

Debunking security myths: Roger A. Grimes, InfoWorld’s Security Adviser, counters critics who declare Windows the most difficult OS to keep secure. To that, Grimes says, “Unless you’re running OpenBSD, this statement is usually untrue. All of those other OSes end up with a fair amount of published vulnerabilities that need to be patched.”

See DEMO run: If you couldn’t make it to DEMO this year, fear not; you needn’t miss out on all the glitz and techno-glamor. We got plenty of videos from the event featuring products like “the poor man’s Blackberry” and Mobio’s Mobile 2.0 product for creating personalized mashups on mobile devices.

It’s the little things: Strategic Developer Martin Heller discovers that Ruby in Steel, a Ruby programming environment for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, will run on Windows XP, but not on Vista, for rather suprising reasons.