Microsoft Talks Back To Google's Security Claims

Kilrah_il writes "Yesterday there was a piece about Google ditching Windows for internal use because of security concerns. Now Microsoft is fighting back, claiming its products are the most secure — more than Google's and Apple's. 'When it comes to security, even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else. And it's not just the hackers; third-party influentials and industry leaders like Cisco tell us regularly that our focus and investment continues to surpass others.'"

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Ahhh /.

[RobbieCrash]

Again we refuse to admit that MS has done anything right, because they still have problems. Improvement doesn't matter, because they're not perfect yet.

Not like OSX, or Linux. No sir. Neither of those products have any security holes. It doesn't matter that OSX is the first system to fall in any form of hacking contest, or that there have been at least 15 articles on /. in the last 6 months talking about how piss poor OSX's security model is. Nope, Microsoft isn't perfect, therefore they have not fixed anything.

Re:Some Helpful Advise

[Gr8Apes]

I went through your links, and one's a trojan masquerading as a form of pirated software (ooo ahhh, how hard is that on ANY system?) and the second link shows that Windows 7 was no more secure under very special specific circumstances. (Charlie Miller apparently is very very good at what he does) The question is, on a reboot or even just a killing of Safari, is the Mac still owned?

And as for your "small number of users" point, I guess that's why Apple surpassed MS in market capitalization last week? Because their number of users are insignificant. Wake up and smell the coffee. MS blows six ways to Sunday. Every other significant OS out there is both better and more secure. MS has falling market share across the board. Then again, there's really no where to go but down from 95%+, to be fair. It's the accelerating decline that's significant and the fact that they can't penetrate any new markets even when they buy customers (Bing).

I'll predict that in less than 10 years, MS will be a footnote in history, as the company that brought us an inferior GUi and managed by hook and crook to steal 25 years of innovation from the world at large. It will also be a case study in universities of the success of marketing vapour. I'm still waiting for Chicago to be released, much less Longhorn or Blackcomb. Although I do note that Windows 7 now has a Panther system directory for its logs.... That's about right - 6 years behind.