Microsoft: Vista still most secure OS, by far
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Jeff Jones, a director in the Microsoft security group, this week published a comparison of system vulnerabilities in various OSs for the month of July and the results are interesting, if predictable. Vista, by far, is the most secure OS in the sense that it's required the fewest fixes. Windows XP also performed pretty well, but various UNIX OSs and Mac OS X did terribly; Sun Microsystems isn't included in this month's review because Sun has apparently begun hiding its results. On the server side, Windows Server 2003 predictably trumps the Linux competition as well. Jones also compiled year-to-date results and, yeah, they're pretty similar: Windows wins big on both the client and the server. For more information, check out Jones' interesting blog post.