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Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher?
Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the 0-day patch rate. What they found: 'Apple was below 20 [unpatched vulnerabilities at disclosure] consistently before 2005,' said Stefan Frei, one of the researchers involved in the study. 'Since then, they are very often above. So if you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple.'"
it must be apple hate week here at slashdot :p
Microsoft has more practice patching their OS!
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
Microsoft is the faster patcher, but only if it happens to be the second Tuesday of the month.
This guy's the limit!
Bah. This comparison is just Apples to - wait a minute...
A-Bomb
NO, no, no. We know that knowledge of these bugs can be known. Implying otherwise, means that we can't know what is not known which is untrue, because eventually we will know it. To really know, what's not yet known on this subject, I suggest we wait until an updated study is released. Then we will know.
On your second point, uncertainty & doubt, I don't know what to think as once we know what needs to be known these will disappear.
What was the study about again?