Microsoft lying?

[mlee97]

Hey, I got some training disks along with a free copy of server 2003/5 from microsoft. while looking through the sales pitch I saw this claim that I could't believe, that win xp is much more secure than most linux distros. look at this chart to see their claim.

[Epyon9283]

I have a feeling Microsoft in all their wisdom have chosen to include every package that comes with the Linux distros which really isn't fair.

so that is the total amount of vulenerabilities each os has had discovered?

either way i really dont think they would put in the book "Hey look how unsecure we are"

Marketing is marketing

[John Prophet]

marketing, plain and simple.....unfortunately in our modern way of looking at things, some words have lost their meaning entirely....for example the average man on the street knows what the word "lie" means....but when you get into the court system or the board room, somehow the meanings get blurry.

what we might call "lying" is accepted in marketing...just as "cheating" is accepted in business....evidently as long as there is SOME vague truth in what they say, it is allowed to fall under the heading of "truth" even though it isnt the WHOLE truth, lol.

[mr.jiggyfly]

They're not lying. It's just that a single chart really cant prove anything, and are often misleading. Microsoft has chosen to portray a set of data in their own way that puts out the idea that their software is more secure.

But we all know that linux is more secure than windows right?

[John Prophet]

"Microsoft has chosen to portray a set of data in their own way that puts out the idea that their software is more secure."



yeah..lying, lol.

[butch81385]

in my econ class, my prof took the same set of data, and set it up in 3 ways... on made it look like the economy was dying and that the country was poor, one showed both average, and the last actually showed our country (usa) as rich with a prosperous economy... all just in the way you set it up... kinda cool really

[CMonster]

Security has as much to do with the vigilance of those who maintain the system as with the system being maintained. However, I a confident that if side-by-side desktop installs of out-of-box (no updates or modifications) Linux and Windows product were compared that Linux would prove to be more secure and more stable. I would bet my data on it -and have proved it for myself.

[crouse]

ditto what cmonster said.........

[Jeordiewhite]

On what butch81385 said, it's interesting how the US will show much of the country is in poverty. What does it take to have someone considered poverty? You can live in a mansion, drive a $50,000 car, have a million dollars in the bank and have very little income and your considered poverty, go figure
As for microsoft, that is just a marketing ploy, who has been hit more and much harder on several occasions, shows you who's more secure. right ?