What makes M$ the big loser in this, regardless of Apple having problems with Safari, and Firefox also having exploitable flaws – it’s that it was with their latest-and-greatest, “most secure ever” OS, Windows 7, running their latest-and-greatest, “most secure ever” version of IE, IE8, both fully patched.

… and since they still do have the majority share of the browser “market” and Safari/Apple is a distant third or fourth place contender, it’s a big black eye for Redmond.

Safari/MacOS may be billed as more secure than Windows/IE, and it may well be true, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

Another flaw in your logic: you say they released 88 patches, and equate that to 88 security flaws. MacOS is based on BSD, a *nix flavor. It’s a different paradigm than Windows. Those 88 patches may not have been to fix 88 security flaws, but rather to fix one or two – but 88 files had to be patched to fix them. When Microsoft releases a patch they don’t tell you how many files have to be patched to fix a particular flaw addressed by a KB. I’m not saying that there weren’t 88 security flaws, or that there were only two – this was only to illustrate the flaw in your logic.

You might want to do some research and read the full story here, before making silly comments:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/192419/security_lessons_learned_from_pwn2own_contest.html

Apple was the big loser this year – the iPhone was hacked in seconds using a Safari exploit, Mac OS also hacked through Safari, and today, they had to release 88 security patched to their “oh, so secure” operating system.

That right **88** security flaws. If Redmond releases a patch with 15 fixes, it’s the lead story on the national news!