Microsoft or Apple - Who Is the Faster Patcher? 252
Amy Bennett writes "And the answer is... Microsoft. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology analyzed 658 high-risk and medium-risk vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple. They measured how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the 0-day patch rate. What they found: 'Apple was below 20 [unpatched vulnerabilities at disclosure] consistently before 2005,' said Stefan Frei, one of the researchers involved in the study. 'Since then, they are very often above. So if you have Apple and compare it to Microsoft, the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple.'"
heh (Score:5, Funny)
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Well, duh... (Score:5, Funny)
If a tree falls ... (Score:3, Funny)
what day of the week is it? (Score:5, Funny)
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yes, and if grandma had wheels..... (Score:3, Funny)
One can always play with the criteria to get any desired winner.
Going by raw number of anything you lose any distinctions as to the severity or impact of each problem.
In general a buffer-overflow in the Windows kernel is a heck of a lot more dangerous than a similar problem in OSX can ever be.
Re:heh (Score:4, Funny)
>> I've thought Bush sucked since 1999. And, since that family has their fingers in everything, it is way more on topic than say, talking about computers. I definitely wasn't cool at the time. It's like not liking Adolph in 1930 -- too soon.
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Or if they are patching a problem in a DRM system or other end-user-inhibitor.
Re:Just more FUD (Score:5, Funny)
On your second point, uncertainty & doubt, I don't know what to think as once we know what needs to be known these will disappear.
What was the study about again?
Re:Well, duh... (Score:3, Funny)
AIs are posting on slashdot!? better than nuking us I s'pose...
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