Whoa nellie. Check this blog post on CSO Magazine out:
Windows Vista – 90 Day Vulnerability Report
Basically, Jeff Jones cataloged and indexed all the vulnerabilities for 6 major operating systems during their first 90 days. He even went so far as to define which vulnerabilities had been fixed and which ones had remained unfixed after those 90 days.
He’s summarized his findings in a very detailed report downloadable here:
http://www.csoonline.com/pdf/Vista_Vuln_Report.pdf
In a nutshell, this is what he found:
In the interests of disclosure, Jeff is an employee at Microsoft however he wrote up a blog entry about why he believes himself to be impartial and/or if he has any bias toward Microsoft technologies. It can be read here:
http://blogs.csoonline.com/exactly_how_biased_am_i
Oh by the way, you wanna see some drama? Go read the comments about his 90-day vulnerability blog entry:
http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_vista_90_day_vulnerability_report?page=1
… I think Jeff handles himself quite professionally amid the chaos.
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