Satnam Narang at Tenable notes that just over half (55%) of all Patch Tuesday CVEs this month are privilege escalation bugs, and of those, a half dozen were rated “exploitation more likely” — across Windows Graphics Component, Windows Accessibility Infrastructure, Windows Kernel, Windows SMB Server and Winlogon
Wanted to post this mostly because I think Krebs on Security is a great resource.
I also thought it would be nice for our Windows users to get a happy reminder to update 
At what point is it just better to nuke Windows as it stands and just build a new desktop OS from scratch?
Is this what happens when you don’t open source your OS?
From whose perspective? If your Microsoft and are valued at $3+ trillion dollars I am sure you are very happy with Windows.
I think a lot of it has to do with being the most popular personal computing OS for decades. That provides a lot of incentive to find and exploit…exploits.
That valuation means jack if you can’t liquidate in cash. Plus, Windows now accounts for less than 10% of their revenue/profit (I forget which) so they don’t really have to care.
You know what would be funny? If Apple somehow made macOS installable on existing Windows hardware (eve without the battery and power efficiency). SO many people would move to it just to escape Windows while still having the industry standard app usability and compatibility.
Wouldn’t this be nutty.
If Microsoft keeps making Windows worse and worse I can see it incentivising people to move off Windows and subsequently move off all their other complimentary services like Office and Azure that make the real money when its walled garden gets too run down. They’re already on track to concede the gaming industry to Valve and Sony, I can see them losing their iron grip on enterprise services too.