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Re:Was Mac OS X really the most vulnerable in 2015? by awakeasleep on Saturday January 09, 2016 @01:24PM (#10872240)
Another thing that would add more information to the picture is something like "percent of installbase running vulnerable version."

If, for example, researchers found 10k vulnerabilities in windows 3.1, it wouldn't make sense to ding microsoft for an insecure operating system, because no one runs that and it's not reasonable to expect support.

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Re:Was Mac OS X really the most vulnerable in 2015? by krylon on Saturday January 09, 2016 @03:11PM (#10872679)
> because no one runs that and it's not reasonable to expect support.

I would not be overly surprised if it turned out somebody was still using Windows 3.1 - I know of at least one company still running NT 4 on at least a few select machines. (This does not invalidate your point, though.)

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Re:Was Mac OS X really the most vulnerable in 2015? by highmastdon on Saturday January 09, 2016 @06:56PM (#10873423)
Someone still using it: https://news.vice.com/article/windows-31-is-still-alive-and-...
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