'Vista security is better than Mac OS and Linux' '

Jeffrey Jones, director of security technology at Microsoft, has just released a report on Vista's malicious code over the past six months, showing that the new operating system needs fewer patches than competing products. another and XP " elder ".

According to the comparison chart, Vista has few bugs to fix and the few most discovered bugs in the group with Windows XP, open source Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4) Workstation, Ubuntu 6.06, SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10) and Mac OS version 10 (X) of Apple.

Comparison table. Blue is a patched bug, orange is an error
discovered and unpatched. Photo: Beta News .

The number of unpatched Vista bugs is much more than Windows XP and less than OS X, at most RHEL4, SLED10, and Ubuntu. For example, Red Hat has to fix the Enterprise Linux 4 operating system's 281 bugs in the first 6 months of its release, and Microsoft only has to fix 12 bugs for Vista.

However, comparing the holes discovered and patched to find the safest product is the most controversial method in the technology world. They think that different operating systems have different features and the way that hackers attack will be very diverse. The level of danger and damage of these errors is the point of further research.