Overview of NT Security
There is a great deal of criticism for NT, highlighting its high number of security vulnerabilities. Yes, NT has made some mistakes that lead to the high number of vulnerabilities, but you also have to put them in perspective considering the functionality and the length of time NT has been around.
NT has been around a shorter time period than UNIX, so it is natural that UNIX is a more mature operating system. The other benefit UNIX has is it matured over a longer period of time, when networking and the Internet were not as popular as they are today, so issues could be resolved before they turned into major problems.
Today, with such a large install base of NT and the type of mission-critical systems it is running, even ...
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