I guess Microsoft knows security

So I was talking to some people the other day about security, according to them Microsoft products can easily be made as secure as *nix(Unix, Mac, linux, etc.) products. Alas there is not time or space for me to discuss all the things that are wrong with that last statement, but I do want to bring up a point. As many of my readers may know Microsoft has many times received warnings about security problems, but instead of admiting/fixing these problems, they just deny the existence of any such problem. In most cases they usually end up shooting themselves in the foot. Now I ask you, how can you possibly setup a windows box and make it more secure than a *nix box, when the company often chooses to deny the existence of bugs?

Now on to my actual reason for this blog. This same aformentioned company now is trying to tell Apple how to handle security issues in their OS. I have not kept up to date on how well Apple has responded to security issues, but my general impressions seems to suggest they are no where NEAR as bad as Microsoft in responding to security issues.