Windows v Linux - Days of risk in 2006
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft’s Jeff Jones has released his “days of risk” comparison of security vulnerabilities fixed in the major workstation operating systems in an attempt to prove his controversial argument that Windows users are arguably safer than those using Linux, Mac OS X or Solaris.
I recently wrote about Jones’ presentation this year’s TechEd conference where he discussed the metrics and techniques used to keep track of OS vulnerabilities and offered an early glimpse at his ongoing 2007 report card.
On his CSO blog, Jones is providing more data, including this chart showing the average days-of-risk in 2006.
“We see in this first chart of the average Days-of-Risk that during 2006, Microsoft provided fixes for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities the quickest on average at about 29 days and Sun came in at the far end with the highest average DoR,” Jones writes.
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and im not saying it isnt true. but the fact remains that there are far more attacks
carried out against windows in those 29 days, than there are against solaris in 168 days.
well, not that it's not an interesting survey, but i'd be reluctant to, say, argue
based on this data because...line one...the guy is working for microsoft
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By meknows on 17.06.2007 - 20:06