Microsoft’s Jeff Jones, the security strategy director of Microsoft’s own Trustworthy Computing Group, unleashed the big news on June 21st that Vista is more secure than both Linux and OSX in a posting on his blog.

I don’t even know how to properly address the level of stupidity in this Wonderful News Item, but here are a few quick points.

a) If it’s so damn secure, why didn’t MS have a third-party evaluate the security of the operating systems in question?
b) Are they so fucking stupid at MS that they expected this to be heralded as Good News after being corporate piranhas for 25 years?
c) Given the level of Open Source loathing for MS, was this supposed to be something to celebrate?

Furthermore, someone at Microsoft needs to give Jeff Jones some basic training in how to write PR blurbs (let’s face it, that’s what this is. Real techies won’t be touching Vista seriously until the first service pack anyway). His tone is arrogant, insipid, and quite foolish. According to him, Vista is Chateau Galliard. Perhaps he should remember that Richard I’s “impregnable fortress” fell to the Muslims less than a year after it was constructed.

I swear, I can’t figure these wonks at Microsoft out. Their reputation is shit most of the time anyway; why poke a stick in the eye of everyone who would loooove to have a go at hacking Vista, knowing that with any true evaluation of the operating system, all their claims would fall flat?

If MS had any brains at all, they’d be trying to get the OSF guys on their side instead of continually antagonizing every IT professional in the world by making outlandish claims. Vista may be good, but to say it’s better than everything else right out of the gate, when history has sadly and painfully taught us that MS products have always been dogs until they’ve been in true production environments, hacked to bits, and patched out the ass is breathtakingly microencephalatic.

You wanna impress us, Jeff? Put a server out on the internet and give us a time limit. You’ll get your ass blown off, and you know it.