Funny, Balmer was just recently a keynote speaker at the Gartner conference.
He claimed that Windoze was a safer bet because holes are patched in a much
more timely manner because there is accountability. That man will say just
about anything and I actually think HE believes that crap he spews. I think
he actually had the guts to claim that holes get patched in days not weeks
or months.
> From: "Pike, Michael" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] ammo: mi2g OS X is world's safest and most
> secure
>
> I totally disagree - I often hear this response from Microsoft advocates any
> time a security hole arises in Windows (whoa, there is another one! And
> another! :)
>
> *nix kernels (OS X, FreeBSD, etc) are open source, and reviewed by millions
> of developers. Microsoft's kernel is not.
>
> If you have a corn field that is 600 acres, and you have to find every
> ladybug in that field with 3 spots (bugs), and you have 1 million people
> looking at it, you will find a significantly larger number of bugs than
> someone who has a team of 100 people looking for them.
>
> I believe the low number of "hacks" related to *nix OS's is due to the fact
> that problems are found and fixed BEFORE they become a problem, as opposed
> to the Microsoft platform which are patched AFTER someone gets hit.
>
> Even if the number of OS X and Microsoft based installations were equal (I
> believe it's possible, I'm working for that), you would still see a
> significantly smaller number of "hacks" for the OS X platform for the mere
> fact that problems are discovered and fixed before they were ever realized
> to be a problem.
>
> Mike
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