Microsoft's audacity at its best: "Our software is less of a security risk than Linux, Mac OS X"
Wow. Sometimes, you read things like this and you wonder if Microsoft employees inhabit the same universe. Apparently, they haven't been following the rampant, constant security holes discovered and exploited in Windows over the past decade. Instead, they try to spin data in their favor to try to convince people that, in fact, Windows is more secure than Linux (and now OS X, which is a bit surprising since I had exactly zero security breaches in the last five years of running OS X - that's "zero" as in "none").
Jeff Jones, strategy director at Microsoft's security technology unit, has posted findings that show Microsoft released patches for vulnerabilities in Windows faster than its four competitors did for flaws in their software.
Unfortunately, Mr. Jones doesn't reveal how serious the security "risks" were (i.e., it might be that an innocuous risk took awhile to fix because, well, it's innocuous, whereas the routine hijacking of Windows systems were plugged quickly because, well, they're not so innocuous). He also doesn't reveal any of the data behind his findings.
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