Cisco warns Microsoft Vista is scary

CISCO'S TOP security boffin Bob Gleichauf has admitted that parts of Vista scare him.

According to ZD Net, Gleichauf said that Vista will fix a lot of security issues, but he fears that anything with that level of complexity will have new threats.

Speaking to the Gartner Security Summit Gleichauf said that it was always a struggle in security, trying to build for what you don't know.

He also said that sticking Vista machines into legacy networks is going to be problematic for a while.

Gartner experts reckon that a lot of companies are a little nervous about running Vole's security systems on legacy systems.

Not many of them believe that Vole will "get it right first time" and do not think it is a good idea to trust network security to the outfit.

Microsoft has not done much to re-assure punters either. The Big G says that by pushing the release date back, Microsoft gave the impression that it was finding more bugs.

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