Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Rich — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:41:52 GMT

What a surprise! In what looks like an attempt to drum up some more visitors to the blog and again, shrinking behind someone else’s work, research, quotes and figures (although obviously another Microsoft employee), Microsoft’s infamous anti-competitor blog brings us someone else’s work spun into yet another little poke at Apple!

Obviously you’re not confident enough in your own products to be able to resist bashing the competition. That’s what I call an ‘inferiority complex’!

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

jamesone — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:36:09 GMT

Sorry where's the poke at Apple ? Their software is much, less riddled with vulnerabilities than Linux but they have more than XP or Vista. Their patching combines all the patches for one event into one. Is that bad ? I never said so.

But thanks for making my point. Mentioning the number of vulnerabilities in the OS which Apple tries to tell consumers is invulnerable attracts the Apple Fan boys and trolls.

I work for the company with the superior product and I have the stats to prove it why on earth would I have an inferiority complex?

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Rich — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:14:57 GMT

The poke? I've read Jeff's report, it is interesting but I can't see where he calls anyone's baby 'ugly'. As for the inferiority complex, I really can't help you with the 'why' part but can suggest reading your blog as testament.

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

jamesone — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:31:35 GMT

Haven't you heard that phrase "to say someone's baby is ugly." meaning to say something nasty about something someone cares about ? Babies ARE ugly. You just don't bring the fact up.

I'm pretty sure the words Ugly and Baby don't appear in Jeff's report. As for complexes I've got another bunch of people saying I'm arrogant about vista.

The fact remains that OS X 10.4 had 3 times as many vulnerabilities as Vista and you seem to be terribly upset that anyone should say so.

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Rich — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:52:26 GMT

So, saying 'someones baby us ugly' is a way of saying something 'nasty'. Bingo.

I'm not upset, I just think the trend of putting down your competitors as a way of trying to boost your own brand isn't a good one. Yes, AND Apple do it too. But surely you don't think this verbal battle gives either you or them any more credibility?

Makes me think of the old phrase 'if you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all'.

re: Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

jamesone — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:51:59 GMT

yes, it's a particular class of nasty.

And I'm much more with Dorothy Parker: "If you haven't got anything nice to say, come and sit next to me" :-)

It's difficult though because I think we've made some good progress on software quality since XP , and XP was better than the competetion (on this metric at least). So do I tell the story that XP is good and Vista better (but risk being sucked into these kinds of Exchanges) or keep quiet and let people believe that Windows is less good than it really is....