Fewer Flaws FUD Wars as Microsoft Paints Misleading Picture of Linux Security

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 21, 2007

[ Thanks to Bill
Andad
for this link. ]

“Jeff Jones is a Strategy Director in the Microsoft Security
Technology Unit, part of the team trying to make Microsoft products
more secure, poor guy. No surprise that he publishes a
vulnerability report on his Microsoft TechNet hosted Security Blog
which always seems to suggest that Microsoft Windows is far more
secure than competing operating systems from Linux vendors. What is
slightly surprising, however, is that this is no died in the wool
Windows guy but someone who first tasted Linux running a P66 SLS
machine with end-to-end tunneling to internal office Sun servers,
running X as his GUI and using an X-redirector across the tunnel.
This is someone who has done kernel development on Trusted Xenix.
This is a guy who knows a bit more about Linux than your average
Windows OS developer…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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