Interesting thought ... have there been any _high profile_ Windows OS vulnerabilities in recent times? I mean, I'm sure there are, there are still tons of patches rolled out on a regular basis. But they're not getting nearly as much media focus as they once were; at least, not in any media that I'm consuming.
Is it a case of the OS now really being way more secure than it once was? Lost interest by malware writers? A bigger focus on vulnerabilities in specific products (ie. Browsers)?
It's a case of the OS being way more secure than it once was. The new kernel that came out with vista helped quite a bit, as well as the constant stream of updates.
Because the OS is more secure, other parts of the system (ie browsers, flash, java) are now (in comparison to the OS) easier to exploit than they were.
Is it a case of the OS now really being way more secure than it once was? Lost interest by malware writers? A bigger focus on vulnerabilities in specific products (ie. Browsers)?