All of those smug Mac lovers who point to Windows vulnerabilities now have something to worry about. A top security researcher claims that Windows Vista is more secure than Mac OS X.
In my opinion, one reason Apple has such a shiny reputation has nothing to do with its platform, and everything to do with its masterful marketing.
Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007
So this shows that Apple had more than 5 times the number of flaws per month than Windows XP and Vista in 2007, and most of these flaws are serious. Clearly this goes against conventional wisdom because the numbers show just the opposite and it isn’t even close.
Also noteworthy is that while Windows Vista shows fewer flaws than Windows XP and has more mitigating factors against exploitation, the addition of Windows Defender and Sidebar added 4 highly critical flaws to Vista that weren’t present in Windows XP. Sidebar accounted for three of those additional vulnerabilities and it’s something I am glad I don’t use. The lone Defender critical vulnerability that was supposed to defend Windows Vista was ironically the first critical vulnerability for Windows Vista.
