'Get a Mac ... it Just Works' Indeed - Apple Patches 25 Flaws with Latest Update
I guess this is the "And then some" part ... Apple today released TWENTY-FIVE (25) updates for the Mac OS (10.5.4) and Safari (3.2.1) browser (and some networking hardware) - THIRTEEN (13) of which are security related. Fixes/enhancements/vulnerabilities were littered across the products and include alias manager, CoreTypes, c++filt, dock, launch services, Net-SNMP, Ruby, SMB File Server, System Configuation, Tomcat, VPN, and WebKit. This is across processors and client/server scenarios, but, nonetheless, do the math below - unless I'm mistaken, that comes to approximately 2GB. Not as easy at it looks or advertises, huh Steve ?
Seriously - creating and maintaining a full-featured and powerful operating system for today's computers is not an easy or perfect process. The lengths that Apple goes to in their advertising to persuade the general public that they can become immune to the various trials and tribulations of personal computing if they buy a Mac because it "it just works" is misleading at best and false-advertising at worst IMHO. This speaks for itself ... updates/patches/fixes are a way of life regardless of the platform - no company is excluded. See how stable and/or secure your Mac is if you ignore a couple rounds of these updates ...
