Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Mar 2007 16:16 UTC, submitted by brewin
Privacy, Security, Encryption Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec, no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors. The information was a part of Symantec's 11th Internet Security Threat Report. The report, released this week, covered a huge range of security and vulnerability issues over the last six months of 2006, including operating systems.
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RE: to end this debate
by melkor on Thu 22nd Mar 2007 22:33 UTC in reply to "to end this debate"
melkor
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2006-12-16

Well posted. Would have been even better to state the number of severe threats etc in each case as well, to show that GNU/Linux has fewer. Time to patch data would have been good as well. I know I can go and hunt this data down, but I'm lazy. Good work.

Dave

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