Parent should not be marked troll...simple fact is that no company can truly be trusted to give you the unbiased truth about their own products or those of their competitors. Without a (reliable and unbiased) third party to confirm, MS's assertions are just above worthless here.
I did notice that in the report they cited as proof of their security from NSS Labs claims that Firefox only "caught" 30% of malware, and Opera apparently has "virtually no protection" against malware, having only "caught" 5%. What the bloody hell does that even mean?
I've been using Firefox and Opera for years now, and ever since I switched from IE, I stopped needing to perform weekly malware scans, because I just wasn't picking any up. I don't know what this "catching" metric they are using is, but why the hell should Opera bother to "catch" malware that it is already invulnerable to?
Where are some REAL metrics that aren't put together by Microsoft shills?
There is only one Security Question they should ever ask you to reset your password: What is your email address?
Type it in, and get your username and a temporary password emailed to you.
The redundancy is part of the point...it reinforces the point they are trying to make in different ways to improve recall.
Oh, and I've read two of these cover-to-cover, and am working on my third. No other technical book has taught me any subject as well, nor have I been able to complete any technical book I've tried to read before these.
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Parent should not be marked troll...simple fact is that no company can truly be trusted to give you the unbiased truth about their own products or those of their competitors. Without a (reliable and unbiased) third party to confirm, MS's assertions are just above worthless here.
I did notice that in the report they cited as proof of their security from NSS Labs claims that Firefox only "caught" 30% of malware, and Opera apparently has "virtually no protection" against malware, having only "caught" 5%. What the bloody hell does that even mean? I've been using Firefox and Opera for years now, and ever since I switched from IE, I stopped needing to perform weekly malware scans, because I just wasn't picking any up. I don't know what this "catching" metric they are using is, but why the hell should Opera bother to "catch" malware that it is already invulnerable to? Where are some REAL metrics that aren't put together by Microsoft shills?
There is only one Security Question they should ever ask you to reset your password: What is your email address? Type it in, and get your username and a temporary password emailed to you.
The redundancy is part of the point...it reinforces the point they are trying to make in different ways to improve recall. Oh, and I've read two of these cover-to-cover, and am working on my third. No other technical book has taught me any subject as well, nor have I been able to complete any technical book I've tried to read before these.