"why can’t they be bothered to make these patches sooner?"
Maybe because there are other things that multibillion dollar company with 100's of engineers smarter than you working with millions of lines of code have thought of that you may not? :rolleyes:
And I would not say "Macs" are much safer. Mac is a piece of hardware that can run OS X, BSD, YDL, Mandrake, etc. Technically, you mean that OS X is safer than Windows due to the fact it is based on FreeBSD.
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