Microsoft vs. Apple: Who patches 0-days faster?

http://security.itworld.com/4940/microsoft-patches-faster-than-apple-080327/page_1.html

As I have said before it isn't that Apple products are actually more secure than Microsoft products, just that more people use Microsoft products and thus more vulnerabilities are exposed and readily exploited. This article only dampens this point even more by comparing how fast these two companies release patches to fix vulnerabilities, bugs, and exploits.

Hasn't anyone noticed why it takes such a long time to release iPod firmware sometimes? I think part of this reason is because Apple's patch development department is less developed or matured than Microsoft's is. Microsoft has to go through thousands of vulnerabilities every few months and because there is a large user base Microsoft has to be able to make sure when vulnerabilities are found that they do their best to patch them as soon as possible. That is why Microsoft has a Patch Tuesday feature that the users know when to update their Windows products with the newest patches and fixes.