Weekly Microsoft Critical Security Issue

An anonymous reader sent in linkage to a zd story discussing the latest Windows Security Patches including an especially nice hole letting Java apps gain total control of your machine and assist you in reclaiming disk space by, say, reformating your drive.

Comments

Re:jvm

[fervent_raptus]

I doubt Microsoft would intentionally break their over version of Java. Of course they want to make Java look bad, but creating holes in their own version would simply cause people to switch to Sun's version.

Clueless

[Thomas A. Anderson]

You're right... Last year Readhat issued nearly twice as many security bulletins as Microsoft.

I'm sure the above is a troll, but I'll answer anyways. When you install windows, you get, well, windows. And internet explorer, and freecell. That's about it.

When you install linux from RedHat (or Mandrake or...) you get the OS, severl browsers and mail clients, 2+ office suites, 4+ text editors, java, perl, c, python, 25+ games, 3+ window manages, etc (not that you have to install all that - but they're available in the install).

I'd say Redhat is doing great to only have 2x the security bulletins as microsoft considering they supply 4x or 5x the software on their cd's.

Plus, it's been documented many times before that bugfixes are available much quicker in the OS world than the MS world.

I'm increasingly convinced that Linux is dying off. The lies and distortions we are seeing on slashbot have become more and more desperate over the past two years.

Name one "lie" regarding linux that you've seen on slashdot that's demonstratable not true (articles only, not posts). Remember, nobody is going to agree with all the opinions expressed on this site.