Facts from Microsoft about Vista

People like complaining, and one of the most popular complaint in tech world is about Vista. Like all other OSs and softwares Vista has its share of faults. But before complaining you should know some vital facts about Vista:

• Majority of Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute.
• Majority of all Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than 6 seconds.
• Windows ReadyBoost is a terrific new innovation in Windows Vista that lets you speed up your system in seconds, and PCs running Windows Vista that are equipped with 512 MB memory experience a performance boost of up to 40 percent.
• Windows Vista users generally experience 20 percent fewer application "hangs" than those running Windows XP.
• Based on their first 180 days of availability, Windows Vista has been shown to have fewer vulnerabilities than Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4.
• Windows Vista security has improved so much that PCs running it are 60 percent less likely to be infected with viruses, worms, and rootkits than PCs running Windows XP SP2.
• And Windows Vista-based PCs are over 90 percent less likely to be infected than systems running Windows XP without a Service Pack.
• Windows Vista-based PCs are almost three times less likely to be infected with potentially unwanted software than Windows XP-based PCs because of Vista shipping with Windows Defender.
• Internet Explorer 7 is now blocking nearly 1 million attempts to access these fake sites per week. New phishing attacks are more than 25 times as common as new viruses. That's right, over 20,000 of these fake websites are created every month.