Considering the publicity that has surrounded - and, despite super new security-focused Service Packs, continues to surround - Windows security issues, Microsoft"s determination to demonstrate that Linux is less secure than Windows shows a certain chutzpah. The company has however had some support here; Forrester, for example, provides some numbers that can be used to support the contention that Microsoft flaws are less severe, less numerous and fixed faster. And although there"s a general readiness among users to believe that Windows is a security disaster area, there"s also a reasonable amount of support for the view that Linux would get just as many security issues if it had anything like Windows" user base.