MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux

Kip Winger writes "Mike Nash, Microsoft's Chief Security Executive, has made claims that Windows is more secure than Linux. In a recent online chat, he staunchly defended Microsoft's record on security, basing part of his argument on how Windows Server 2003's 15 patches in the past year are far less than what RedHat or SuSE have had to endure." He also mentioned the recent purchase of Sybari and their Antivirus product.

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HAHA

[Daytona955i]

What did you expect? Microsofts security chief to say that linux is more secure?

I don't want to get political, but...

[Glowing Fish]

I don't like to get political, but this reminds me so much of the Bush administration. Its not the politics of the Bush administration that bothers me (I don't like their politics, but I can disagree with people without thinking they are corrupt), its the fact that they can have repeated failures, and still with a straight face claim that they have a success. How big does the debt have to get, and how many people in Iraq have to die, before Bush & Co. admit that perhaps they made some mistakes?

Same thing with Microsoft. If they can say with a straight face that Windows is more secure than Linux, how big of a disaster has to happen before they realize the real situation?

Let's Be Clear About This

[Master of Transhuman]

Microsoft is composed of a bunch of lying sacks of shit. ANY public - or blog - statement made by ANY Microsoft employee is about as reliable as something coming out of the mouth of Bush. It's not only a falsehood, it's a deliberate lie made by people who don't give a damn what anybody else thinks about them or the messes they've made because they are personally profiting from those messes.

NO ONE at Microsoft gives a RAT'S ASS about security. Period.

Bill Gates has NEVER cared about ANYTHING except sucking as much money out of other people's pockets (since his poker days at Harvard) as he can. He learned this from his lawyer father (the same one that runs his "charitable foundation" which exists for the sole purpose of concentrating influence over various corporations through investments.)

The dweebs he has working (and speaking - including on /.) for him don't care about anything but their high salaries, stock options and bowing down to the richest guy in the world.

The CIOs who buy his crap aren't concerned about anything but covering their asses to their bosses.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM^H^H^HMicrosoft."

The /. trolls who praise Microsoft are incompetent punks who are indistinguishable from Microsoft employees - except they don't have the brains to even work for Microsoft (except for the actual Microsoft shills.)

The bottom line is this: you're either a free man working for yourself, or you're a punk working for Microsoft.

An ABC News article yesterday actually dared to raise the concept that Microsoft is dying. They have nothing left except a bloated, unfinishable OS called Longhorn - on which they're about to get shafted.

And it's about time, too.

Mod this troll, mod this flamebait! Is that all you got, huh? Are you nuts? Come at me!