I saw this article on Slashdot and about laughed myself to death. Symantec, the company known for it’s anti-virus and firewall software, has reported in a study that Microsoft has the most secure OS of its competitors. The article about this hilarious report went on to mention that Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X have ranked BELOW Microsoft. Seriously? Come on now.

From the Slashdot article:

“According to a Symantec study reported by Information Week, Microsoft has the most secure operating system amongst its commercial competitors. The report only covered the last 6 months of vulnerabilities and patch releases, but the results place Microsoft operating systems above Mac OS X and Red Hat. According to the article, ‘The report found that Microsoft Windows had the fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time of the five operating systems it monitored in the last six months of 2006.’ The article continues to mention the metrics used in the study (quantity and severity of vulnerabilities as well as the amount of time one must wait for the patch to be released).”

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