On the heels of a report that Google will stage out Windows in its office since of safety worry, Microsoft on Tuesday stand up for its operating system.

Microsoft's retaliation was a rotate from previous in the day, when the corporation refuse to remark on a tale published Monday by the Financial Times. The newspaper cited some unnamed Google workers who said that the corporation is removal Windows since of doubts about safety.

Google has cause to worry about safety. In January, the corporation proclaims that Chinese hackers had busted into its network and stolen private information, an event that led Google to shift its Chinese search process to Hong Kong and out of reach of Chinese government censors.

Safety researchers soon said hackers had targeted Google and other companies with an exploit of a then-unpatched weakness in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.

Quite than Windows, Google is contribution personnel the selection between Macs running Apple's Mac OS X and PCs running Linux, the Financial Times said.

"When it comes to safety, still hackers confess we're doing an improved job creation our products more safe than anybody else," said Microsoft presenter Brandon LeBlanc in a post to the company’s Windows.

LeBlanc also mark off half a dozen instances of Microsoft's attempts to make Windows safer, ranging from "we dispatch our software and safety updates to our clients immediately possible" to "Windows 7 uses Address Space Layout Randomization too by randomizing information in memory."

Safety researchers, though, have query Microsoft's pace in patching flaws and have exposed how to bypass Windows' ASLR, majority particularly in March at Pwn2Own hacking competition.