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Microsoft’s Audacity at its Best: “Our Software is Less of a Security Risk than Linux, Mac OS X”

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Matt Asay
Jun 22, 2007

“Wow. Sometimes, you read things like this and you wonder if
Microsoft employees inhabit the same universe. Apparently, they
haven’t been following the rampant, constant security holes
discovered and exploited in Windows over the past decade. Instead,
they try to spin data in their favor to try to convince people
that, in fact, Windows is more secure than Linux (and now OS X,
which is a bit surprising since I had exactly zero security
breaches in the last five years of running OS X–that’s ‘zero’ as
in ‘none’)…”

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Matt Asay

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