Windows versus Mac

[Boltman]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

I think it's interesting you think Microsoft's track record is better for patches than Apples.
Considering the proliferation of known threats in the Windows ecosystem.

In theory Linux could be the worst considering situations where a whole package has to be removed before you can actually install something with support that is active. That's really RedHat's niche. Owning parts of RHEL that the package maintainers might not care to fix themselves.



Which was why Azure made a deal with RedHat.



The last 2 companies I worked for were 80% Windows hoping to be 50% Linux (50,000+ units in the data centers).
The costs are high and in Clouds: Windows doesn't like being shutdown without warning.
Microsoft has gotten better about this, and in fairness Linux is not perfect either, but still Linux is better at recovering from this.

Every system was hacked at Pwn2Own 2016 this year including Windows . Windows 10 is pretty anti-hacker though with UAC and MIC Windows since Vista has been a fairly tough target. Windows Phone has received top billing at toughest mobile OS to hack and all nine FIPS certs. Microsoft for years had a hacking target on their back, they hardened the OS dramatically.

The hacks you read about today are all mobile for the most part IOS and Android.