Does the The Hackers Nightmare address security for all Windows versions?
The general principles of computer and online security are much the same regardless of operating system. For the purposes of illustration I have elected to continue to use Windows XP for examples in The Hacker’s Nightmare. That decision, which is reviewed with each update of the e-book, is based on market share of the main Windows versions. According to Wikipedia, Windows XP had an October 2008 market share of 68.11%, compared with Windows Vista’s 19.29% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows). With the next version of Windows already announced it’s clear that even Microsoft is abandoning any pretence that Vista has been accepted by the community at large. It’s very unlikely there will be any significant move towards an unpopular Windows Vista this late in the game, leaving the majority of computers running Windows XP while awaiting the new version. However users of other Windows versions, in particular Windows Vista and Windows 2000, should have little difficulty in applying
