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Title: Windows Operating Systems Infection Rates
Post by: Nesivos on January 18, 2012, 09:36:28 PM

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CjbUqevTDY0/TxcpQKmZGbI/AAAAAAAAAG8/ilWjyTObmmY/s400/Operating_System_Infection_Rates_small.png)

The lighter bars to the right are the x64 version of the respective OS

I have been using Windows 8-DP x64 exclusively for about the last two to three months and it is even more secure than Windows 7 SP1 x64.  Of course once we start to see Windows 8 RTM on computers with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (EUFI) sometime late this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface)

those computers will be even safer.

Source: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/keyfindings/default.aspx#!section_4_2 (http://www.microsoft.com/security/sir/keyfindings/default.aspx#!section_4_2)

Title: Re: Windows Operating Systems Infection Rates
Post by: spg SCOTT on January 18, 2012, 10:01:32 PM

Surely that makes sense. Based on just numbers there are more people on XP, and have been for a lot longer.