With another ten important security patches (seven of those critical) released by Microsoft this month, and daily security announcements concerning Open Source systems, many people are looking for a comprehensible answer on which OS is "secure". Microsoft's "Get the Facts" information is a marketing campaign. Nicholas Petreley, writer, Linux guru and analyst, has published a new analysis addressing Microsoft's major points in detail.
However, security cannot be packaged in a box or OS; it is greatly affected by how systems are used.