Microsoft COO: We Have 'The Most Secure Platform On The Planet'

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) used to have a security problem, but according to COO Kevin Turner, now it's the other guys that are scrambling to patch vulnerabilities in their software.

"The safest, most secure platform on the planet is Microsoft," Turner said last week at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference.

Turner was basing this claim, at least in part, on data that security vendor Secunia released in March. It showed that 86 percent of vulnerabilities found in the 50 most widely used apps last year were in non-Microsoft products. Google (NSDQ:GOOG), Apple (NSDQ:AAPL), Adobe (NSDQ:ADBE) and Mozilla all had more vulnerabilities than Microsoft, according to the Secunia report. However, as Turner noted at WPC, Microsoft's footprint is three to five times larger than these companies.