During Windows Vista's first six months on the market, Microsoft released four
security updates to address 12 total vulnerabilities. In the National
Vulnerability Database, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) rated 10 0f
these issues as "high" severity, one as "medium," and one as "low."
Jones compared Vista to open-source operating systems. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4, the most downloaded GNU/Linux distribution, saw 129 publicly disclosed
bugs during its first six months of availability. Forty of them were ranked
"high" severity. Red Hat fixed a total of 281 vulnerabilities in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation in the first six months, 86 of which were rated
"high" severity. On the basis of these numbers, Jones concluded that Vista was
more secure than its open-source counterpart.
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