Even those who don't like Windows 8 should consider it for its superior security as opposed to older Microsoft operating systems, if nothing else, the company says.
According to its latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, machines running Windows XP are six times more likely to become infected than machines running Windows 8, the report says. The raw numbers are that 9.1 Windows XP machines need to be cleaned per 1000 versus 1.6 Windows 8 machines.
The reason, Microsoft says, is that Windows XP's data execution prevention (DEP) is old and doesn't address modern threats as well as the defenses in Windows 8.
"People figured out how to get around DEP as a mitigation," says Holly Stewart, program manager for Micrsoft's Malware Protection Center.
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