Symantec has issued a report which warns of instability and security risks in early releases of Microsofts latest Vista.
Symantecs report was produced after examining Microsoft's latest Vista release and the issues raised are related to the new networking technology, which has several security flaws.
The researchers at Symantec concluded that Vista could be less stable than Windows XP, at least for the immediate future.
It is worth noting that the tests were conducted on beta code which is designed for testing purposes only and bugs identified during this process are fixed with each build.