According to the security strategy director in Microsoft's Trustworthy
Computing Group, Windows Vista is far more secure than other platforms,
including Linux and previous versions of Windows. On his blog,
Jeff Jones has published a report (
PDF)
that claims fewer serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Windows
Vista in the six months after its release than not only Windows XP, but also all
major enterprise Linux distributions and Apple's MacOS X. But as
eWeek reports, analysts aren't convinced. They believe counting methods are
subjective, with Directions on Microsoft analyst Michael Cherry going so far as
to say, "If we get obsessed about vulnerability counts we almost put pressure on
them to manipulate the count. To not report things."