Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Dec 2007 21:42 UTC
It's the time of year again, folks. "The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in these two operating systems, I've compiled all the security flaws in Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista and placed them side by side. This is significant because it shows a trend that can give us a good estimate for how many flaws we can expect to find in the coming months." Do with it as you please.
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2006-02-15
This is significant because it shows a trend that can give us a good estimate for how many flaws we can expect to find in the coming months.
What can you actually deduct from such numbers? It looks like OS X has gotten the most bugfixes but you can't really deduct the reason for that from the numbers! It could be almost any reason whatsoever: they just might have more bugs that Windows, or they might just dedicate more people to fixing bugs, or people are more willing to report bugs to Apple or... Nah, completely useless numbers. Interesting? Perhaps to some. But useful? Not in any way except for those who try to spread FUD either way.
EDIT: Forgot to add that we CAN'T even estimate how many flaws will be fixed in the "coming months" either: maybe there will be just as many bugs found, or maybe they have fixed them all now and there won't be so many bugs left to fix, or the difficulty of the upcoming bugfixes might change radically or.. Just come up with more if you please.
Edited 2007-12-20 22:08