>You might want to go to the site to *see* what i'm talking about before you >write. The report on Secunia covers the first 8 months of 2007... >Vista was released at the end of January.
>> Reread Mike's post. Read the last sentence most carefully. Then ask >> yourself, during what part of "the same time period" was Vista in the >> marketplace? >> Apple OS X; 10 months; 7 flaws >> MS Vista; 2 months; 6 flaws Mike, Having a product available for sale is not the same as being in the marketplace. It took months for Vista to be found on any significant number of computers. By my estimation that did not happen until Summer 2007. You could quibble about whether I should credit Vista with 2 months or 3 months, but to say that Vista was in the marketplace for any significant part of 2007 is simply not accurate. Software sitting in a warehouse, on a store shelf, or in an unopened box simply don't count. If I wanted to quibble I expect that I could easily argue that most, maybe all, of the flaws Secunia reported were insignificant. Note that none of the Secunia-reported Mac flaws resulted in any real exploit. The fact that you find it necessary to obsess over the Secunia reports and that Mac users pay no mind to these sky-is-falling reports says a lot about the state of computer security. Ultimately that is what really matters and we don't have to split hairs to establish these facts. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
