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Story: Mac OS: More critical flaws than Windows in 2007

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Re-check your facts, ator1940

"Microsoft tends to bundle patches together with no information on what is being patched, so you have no idea how many problems are taken care of, just hope they got them all and that the patches aren't broke."

Is that a fact? Amazing what one can turn up when one does a search of Microsoft's knowledge base...

Windows XP SP2 fixes

838199 - List of Internet Explorer fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2
838200 - List of multimedia fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2
838202 - List of Remote Desktop fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2
838203 - Shell fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838206 - List of printing fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838209 - List of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838210 - List of the management and administration issues that are addressed in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838211 - List of Com+ fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838213 - List of base operating system fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
838214 - List of the program compatibility problems and the update scenarios that Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 fixes
838193 - List of Windows XP Media Center Edition fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2

SMS SP5

816549 - List of Bugs Fixed in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 5
816290 - List of security changes in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 5

Windows 2000 SP4

327194 - List of bugs that are fixed in Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
324953 - List of Security Fixes in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3

And the list continues.

Care to revise your BS statement?

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