14 DAY TRIAL // In the wake of the Month of Apple Bugs, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates expressed his faith in the security delivered by Windows Vista. So much so, in fact that he felt confident to issue an invitation to identify a critical vulnerability at the rate of one per month for Windows Vista. By comparison, the Month of Apple bugs revealed a total exploit per day for 31 days straight, beginning January 1 and ending on January 31, 2007.
The truth of the matter is that the Month of Apple Bugs could not have come at a better time for Microsoft. You want to talk about timing? How's this for timing... At the end of January 2007, and following the release of no less than 31 vulnerabilities for Apple products, Microsoft launches Windows Vista, applauded as the most secure operating system to exit from the Redmond Company's laboratories.
Bill Gates also stated that he fails to see the basis of the superior position adopted by Apple. In this regard, Apple has a whole history of beating the drum that Windows copies the Mac operating system. Gates failed to dispute the interface similarities between Windows Vista and Mac OS, but he did however counteract in relation to the author of: file, menu, edit, view, help interface concepts.
In an interview for MSNBC, Bill Gates criticized Apple for failing to take steps to improve the user's security, in the same manner that Microsoft has done with Windows Vista. However, Windows Vista has had it's fair share of security vulnerabilities even before hitting the shelves, and Microsoft executives including Jim Allchin, have stated on numerous occasions that the operating system is neither foolproof nor perfect.