Most reported vulnerabilities? Thats a pretty broad and open ended category.
First off, it ends up telling you little to nothing about the security of the system in question unless there is at least some assurance that the reported security issues are at least close to ALL the security issues, meaning no significant unreported issues.
Even if the reported security issues do reflect accurately ALL security issues, that only indicates a certain level of sloppiness in the original design of the program in question. It simply means that the product out of the box (so to speak) had more potential vulnerabilities then others, but it obviously dosnt end there.
These were potential vulnerabilities so the question becomes how were they dealt with? Was a quick relatively preemptive fix provided? Were these almost impossible vulnerabilities to exploit? If these vulnerabilities were to be exploited whats the damage? Significant or insignificant?
The list goes on. Everyone should know by now that statistics on their own seldom tell much of a story without the appropriate context added in to see just what the facts and figures are applying to.
That goes for OSX, Windows and pretty much any program out there, so people should take it easy with pounding on any OS without mercy when they read something like this.
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