Posted on Thursday, December 20 2007 @ 0:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
ZD Net
takes a look at how many bugs were found in Windows and Mac OS X this year. The results are pretty interesting, Windows XP had an average of 2.83 bugs per month, Vista 1.67 bugs per month and Mac OS X 20.25 bugs per month.
I used vulnerability statistics from an impartial third party vendor Secunia and I broke them down by Windows XP flaws, Vista flaws, and Mac OS X flaws. Since Secunia doesn’t offer individual numbers for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4, I merged the XP and Vista vulnerabilities so that we can compare Vista + XP flaws to Mac OS X. In case you’re wondering how 19 plus 12 could equal 23, this is because there are many overlapping flaws that is shared between XP and Vista so those don’t get counted twice just as I don’t count something that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 twice.
| Windows XP, Vista, and Mac OS X vulnerability stats
for 2007 |
| |
XP |
Vista |
XP + Vista |
Mac OS X |
| Total extremely critical |
3 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
| Total highly critical |
19 |
12 |
23 |
234 |
| Total moderately critical |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
| Total less critical |
3 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
| Total flaws |
34 |
20 |
44 |
243 |
| Average flaws per month |
2.83 |
1.67 |
3.67 |
20.25 |
