I’ve been working with Windows Vista, and other than a few niggly, minor problems (a number of downloadable casual titles aren’t compatible, but I’m not about to drop bombs like that when an OS is under a month old; we’ll talk in five months or so) it’s been running quite fast and clean. Imagine my surprise when it told me that an update was already available. I’m pretty used to seeing this in XP, but never in Vista. So I did a little research.

According to PC World, the patch isn’t really a patch. Well, it is a patch, but not really. Yeah, existential. Deal with it. Anyway, the biggest update – there are 12 of them, 11 of which are marked “critical” – is a part of the Microsoft malware detection code, rather than being an update of the underlying engine. See? It’s not that Vista’s messed up. However, given the fact that Vista was supposed to be bulletproof, it’s interesting that a vulnerability was caught so early in the OS’ lifecycle. Does this mean we should be worried yet? *duhn duhn duuuhnnnn!* (yes, that’s the scary music cue)

[via PCWorld.com]