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Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws
ancientribe writes "Microsoft issued a year-one security report on its Windows Vista operating system today, and it turns out Vista logged less than half the vulnerabilities than Windows XP did in its first year. According to the new Microsoft report, Vista also had fewer vulnerabilities in its first year than other OSes — including Red Hat rhel4ws, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 — did in their first years."
No users == no problems
- because it seems nobody's actually using it.
In related news, BeOS showed few vulnerabilities this year...
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Verdict OS completely secure.
...after all, any operating system that is basically unusable is going to have fewer vulnerabilities as a matter of course.
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Boeing has said it's latest jet liner crashes less and Ford has made a car that kills fewer drivers.
All this means is that there will be a really big patch tomorrow.
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How does that old quote go?
"There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and Microsoft PR"
Or something along those lines...
You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
My OS has the fewest flaws! I created a design where the gui involves a sheet of pulverized tree, and then you take the special stylus (sold separately) that contains a special solution of a liquid with tiny pigmented particles suspended in it. While there have been reports that occasionally the stylus can malfunction, vigorous shaking or banging the stylus on a hard surface and proceeding to make several tight spirals or circles clears this OS flaw up pretty quickly! Of course, at present there are not that many users of said OS, but as it is a much more robust OS than Vista, I feel that the results for my OS are far superior to those achieved by Vista.
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From the PDF
Page 12 - Windows Vista Fixed 36 vulnerabilities
Page 14 - Ubuntu fixed 406 vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
Look how many vista have left to find!!
You know it's bad when not even the script kiddies wanna get their paws on it.
I'm not giving Vista flaw space.
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1. no users no bugs
2. microsoft sucks
3. linux rules, yay open source
4. my comments are smarter than yours (also known as comic book guy syndrome)
5. firefox is better than IE
6. if a pro slashdot community product has more bugs, then it is an automatic smear campaign. If the bugs are pointed out by a vendor even if true, propaganda non the less
7. I went to college, can code in c/c++, and understand the linux kernel. I am an expert on everything and know more than anyone else
And that 1 flaw was actually putting Vista on the market.
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I'm sorry, but I'm quite certain that a full Debian install would include Emacs.
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And McDonalds claim they make nutritious healthy food...
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Bricks have few vulnerabilities too.