Comment Re:is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever buil (Score 1) 1010
The President of the United States is arguably the most secured individual on the planet.
However, due to the large number of threats against him and his need to travel and be in the public eye often, he is not the safest individual on the planet.
Operating systems are the same. Vista has added many good defenses, but is still the OS with the target on its back.
Great analogy... In fact, in reading the IBM Internet Security Systems 2008 Trend and Risk report, this seems to be the case. The X-Force group analyzed and documented 7,406 vulnerabilities in 2008. Of those, the breakdown of the top 5 OSes with security issues found was: OS X Server: 14.3% OS X: 14.3% Linux Kernel: 10.9% (not distro specific) Solaris: 7.3% Win XP: 5.5% Vista came in 7th with 5.1%. At the same time, as stated above, even though the OS may be "secure", there are a lot more people targeting Windows than there are targeting OS X or Linux, simply because most people are running Windows.
