Just bumped into this link: the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/default.aspx (at the bottom you can download a PDF (a.o.) in English or French)
Some figures I like to highlight: p. 18 (figure 5): Microsoft-related vulnerability disclosures increased towards the end. (note: Non-microsoft means: other software running under Windows) p. 20 Great hop in "JAVA" (due to popularity) but have a look at the brown "Operating System" line! p.21 Exploits that are "Internet Explorer Specific" are quite a lot: they say: Exploits that target IE accounted for between 19 and 36% of HTML-related exploits each quarter! p. 23-24 talks about types of exploits... I just turn around and take another nap :) p. 30 World map showing infection rates globally. Most of Europe and US has a rate of 10-25% ... under Ubuntu we have a rate of 1-2% I think :) p. 35 Infection rates per "Operating system" (yet, only the MS family... I guess they know we don't get sick) ;) p. 36 Figure 18: Infection rates per release of Win... obviously, Win XP has the most infections, and Win7 has the lowest (would be a pity it it were the other way around). But Win 7 is climbing! This report doesn't stop! And it's a gift from MS to us all!! So much great graphs that we could include in our presentations on why to switch to Ubuntu!! Enjoy the lecture! (I hope they notice an above average number of Linux computers downloading this file in their webserver statistics!) Grtz, Jurgen -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
