Microsoft claims it’s more secure than Linux

From heise online:
Microsoft funded a report looking into the relative securities of Linux and Windows Server. They chose criteria that had little to do with real performance - mostly having to do with time periods between bugs reported and bug fixed.

Doubts regarding the reliability of the conclusions of the study begin to emerge, however, when one looks more closely at this MySQL example; thus the researches write:

For example, CAN-2004-0957 discusses a bug in MySQL’s mysql_real_connect() function. This was entered into the MySQL bug database on 4th June 2004, and fixed in the source tree 17th June 2004. However, Red Hat only packaged this fix in RHSA-2004:611, issued on the 27th of November.

It’s no surprise that the results were ‘massaged’ a little considering the funding came entirely from Microsoft. For details on the study, see the complete story.