[justlurking]

Of course, that doesn't stop your side from lumping vulnerabilities in IE or Outlook or IIS into Windows.

Microsoft themselves claimed (in court) that IE was an integral and unseparable part of Windows

Personally, I wouldn't claim that IIS is part of Windows, even though it was on the Windows distribution disk(s). It took a separate, overt action on the part of the user to install it.

However, the problem with comparing a Windows-only application from Microsoft to an open source application that happens to run on Linux is that Linux is usually only one of the supported platforms.

In only a quick scan, I can identify several of them that also run on Windows: Mozilla, Ethereal, PHP, Apache, VNC, Lynx, Netscape, MySQL, and Ghostscript all have Windows source and binary distributions, although I don't know if they were exploitable. If you want to attribute them as Linux security problems, then they are potential Windows security problems as well -- even though they are not Microsoft products.

[Bush2000]

Microsoft themselves claimed (in court) that IE was an integral and unseparable part of Windows

They might have made that claim but the court didn't buy that argument. The court went so far as to order MS to disintegrate them. So try again.

If you want to attribute them as Linux security problems, then they are potential Windows security problems as well -- even though they are not Microsoft products.

Get real. Mozilla and Apache and Netscape aren't distributed on Windows disks. But they are distributed with Linux.