Interesting! Note that Microsoft did indeed call it right in their new system of predicting which attacks are most likely to cause the most trouble. Four out of the nine attacks that they labeled as likely to cause trouble did indeed cause trouble. (And if the other five didn't, that's a credit to Microsoft, not a failing.) None of the ones they labeled as less likely to cause trouble, caused trouble. But as this is a new system, and hackers are nothing if not smart, I would expect hackers to say to themselves -- "Huh, Microsoft sees something in this hole that they think makes it easy for me to exploit -- let's find out what that is."
You do have to give Microsoft some credit here for trying something new to defend against the relentless attacks against its software. You might say its software is vulnerable because of how fat it often is and that's true, but only to a point. It's a numbers game. If Ubunto lands on most of the world's desktops, it will be relentlessly hacked, too.
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