Posted by: kurtsh | May 4, 2007

NEWS: Independent Security Expert Rates Windows Vista higher than Mac OS

Taken from this article:

From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security?

I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. It is obvious from observing affected components in security patches that Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) has resulted in fewer vulnerabilities in newly-written code. I hope that more software vendors follow their lead in developing proactive software security development methodologies.

Full article: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/index.php


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