Another MSFT article

I have two comments on this article.
From Microsoft Australia platform strategy manager Paul Roworth: it's quicker to get patches for holes in Microsoft products – 25 days on average compared with 57-82 for various flavours of Linux, according to Microsoft's statistics. I'm not entirely sure how this statistic was formulated, what “flavours” of Linux they are talking about or how in any way they came up with these numbers – but I sure would like to see the empirical evidence to back it up. It certainly seems contradictory to my experience.
Next, Microsoft Australia managing director Steve Vamos said “the days when the open source-proprietary software debate was an ideological one are over.” It's good to see that they realize that OSS software has clear and demonstrable technical merit. Now, it's great to be able to avoid vendor lockin, be able to scratch your own itch and have a technically superior solution…isn't it ;)
–jeremy