Three operating system – Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux- dominate the world of computing today. Windows is the most popular out of the three with having 90 percent of the operating market share. It is in Commercial buildings, Industrial facilities, as well as home computer. Widows, having been introduced in 1985, is a very mature and complete piece of software. Yet, it has its flaws. Apple’s Macintosh OS is even older than Windows. It’s the first successful graphical-based OS, It was released a year before it’s Microsoft counterpart. Linux has the unlikely origin of being the hobby project of finnish university student Linus Torvalds. The Linux kernel was first released independently in 1991. But what really sets them apart? Each operating …show more content…
To deal with vulnerabilities and potential threats, Apple provides software updates and security enhancements that can be downloaded automatically and installed quickly. Apple works with the incident response community such as CERT, FIRST and FreeBSD Security Team, to proactively identify and quickly correct operating system vulnerabilities. Linux OS is built for power users and lays out a blank canvas for anyone with a bit of programming prowess who wants to create an operating system experience that’s tailor-fit just for them. Unfortunately, much like Windows, its open-ended architecture gives viruses room to play. When talking about security it’s hard not to mention the many pitfalls of the Windows architecture. The same wide tundra of customization users have come to expect also makes it one of the most vulnerable operating systems around. Though it would be close to impossible to list all the security flaws found burrowed in its binary during the course of the past year, one needn’t look much further than the discovery of the decades-old Schannel bug as a prime example for what users should expect whenever they run a Windows variant on their home or business