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Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws

Posted by samzenpus on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

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."

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  1. Well, sure there're few flaws seen - by rubicon7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    - because it seems nobody's actually using it.

    In related news, BeOS showed few vulnerabilities this year...

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    1. Re:Well, sure there're few flaws seen - by __aaqvdr516 · · Score: 5, Funny

      While OS/2 Warp pulled in a close second...

  2. Passed every test by edwardpickman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Click to launch Word.

    "Denied'

    Copy file

    "Denied"

    Launch Firefox

    "Denied"

    Verdict OS completely secure.

  3. Sounds plausible... by Angst+Badger · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...after all, any operating system that is basically unusable is going to have fewer vulnerabilities as a matter of course.

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  4. Re:Number of vulnerabilities -- who cares? by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the last time, you just can't [...]

            You must be new here.

  5. Re:Bad metric by XiX36 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  6. Report says Ubuntu is better! by LingNoi · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!!

  7. Wow, Worse Than I Thought by ryanisflyboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know it's bad when not even the script kiddies wanna get their paws on it.

  8. Only 1 Flaw by Barumpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that 1 flaw was actually putting Vista on the market.

  9. Re:Methodology has issues by cp.tar · · Score: 3, Funny

    10000+ packages (which include everything except for the kitchen sink) that make up a full debian install

    I'm sorry, but I'm quite certain that a full Debian install would include Emacs.

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  10. Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws by dintech · · Score: 5, Funny

    And McDonalds claim they make nutritious healthy food...

  11. Re:Fewest Users = Fewest Flaws by PinkyDead · · Score: 5, Funny

    For ANY point of view you can find hundreds of posts by "Slashdotters" supporting OR contradicting it. No you can't.
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