Microsoft today is more secure than any other in their category like Adobe and Apple. I am not a big fan of Microsoft and not even to Apple, but this was not stated by me. But I am a big fan of Bill Gates for his marketing strategy.
Marc Maiffret, co-founder of eEye Digital Security, who once faced FBI agents waving a gun in his face over his hacking exploits aged 17, now works trying to find security flaws in Microsoft’s software and well as tackling malware. He claims that Apple and Adobe are now lagging behind Microsoft when it comes to security.
On continuing “Now when you look at Microsoft today they do more to secure their software than anyone. They’re the model for how to do it. They’re not perfect; there’s room for improvement. But they are definitely doing more than anybody else in the industry, I would say, From an internal process in how they go about auditing their code and securing software from a technical perspective, they do have one of the best models. The area they still have room for improvement is around time lines of how long it takes for them to fix things.” (source CNET News)
Adding “They are starting to get black eyes with people saying Adobe is a bigger worry than Microsoft is at the moment, which I agree with. As those things are happening, Adobe and Apple and other companies are starting to pay attention and care more. But a year ago, it was still very much a marketing thing. People from both companies treated it as a marketing problem. They didn’t have good technical structures behind the scenes.”
Towards Apple’s Mac “It’s even a little scarier with them because they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses, etc. Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s found a new Apple vulnerability.”
As by the word “More stones thrown to the grown(fruiting) tree than the shorter/growing” Apple is definitely not that type of grown one when it comes to security. Windows has more vulnerabilities than Mac because Mac’s marketing numbers are not high as Windows. So no one care for creating virus to very scarcely using OS than Windows and if though vulnerabilities are there, no one is interested in finding it.
Microsoft is staying ahead than any other in the industry and also they have some space to fill by improving faster.
Note:
When OS emerges in great speed while Apple and Microsoft competes each other to catch up the market, Apple’s GUI is better than Microsoft’s but Apple’s OS work only on their hardware so people are forced to buy both h/w and s/w from a same company, but windows OS can run on any companies h/w like intel, and other hardware companies at that time. This helps MS to catch the market and its still in its hand.
The First GUI was featured by XEROX . do you believe it ? Please comment this post.
Written by Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
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