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Is Windows safer than Linux?

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Network World on Linux; By Phil Hochmuth 		Mail this story
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A recent study comparing Windows and Linux vulnerabilities showed that Microsoft is quicker at responding to problems in its software, while many of the leading Linux distributions lag in reaction time. The study conducted by Forrester Research..

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OmegaBLK ·
Not to mention Forrester Research has already been exposed for spreading the usual incomplete nonsense that companies like m2g or whatever their names is do. These firms/companies always tend to make bogus claims and then offer to give the results if you pay them. The Big 4 major distros have banded together with a Joint Statement disputing Forrester's "claims". See here for responses -->> http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040406 & http://linuxtoday.com/security/2004040604026NWSW.

Plus how can you trust "their" results when its is in fact sponsored by Microsoft themselves? -->> http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/default.aspx

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