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Microsoft better at patching XP than Vista
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
June 22, 2007

A Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six
months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly
disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.

In total, Microsoft has patched 12 out of 27 disclosed Vista
vulnerabilities in the six months after it first shipped last November.
During XP's first six months, Microsoft's security team patched 36 out
of 39 known bugs. 

The data was published by Jeff Jones, a Microsoft security strategy
director.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/22/Microsoft-better-at-patching-XP_1.html