Patch this! Musings on Microsoft's Windows patching
What color is the sky in Microsoft's world? Green?
In a recent eWEEK story by Peter Galli, Bill Hilf, who is director of Microsoft's Platform Technology Strategy and heads its Linux and open-source lab claims that "patching, particularly for security, is not a 'Microsoft problem,' but something that affects all operating system and platform vendors."
Fair enough. Everyone has security problems, everyone has patches. But claiming, as Hilf does, that Microsoft's patching is somehow better than that of the major Linux distributions is complete nonsense.
As Mark Cox, security response team leader at Red Hat, points out in the story, simply measuring the number of patches is meaningless.
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