Honestly, when it comes to cyberattacks, I think the truly worst area right now is "Internet of Things" devices and similar Internet connected devices like poin

Honestly, when it comes to cyberattacks, I think the truly worst area right now is "Internet of Things" devices and similar Internet connected devices like point of sales. At least Windows (and other computer OSes) have slowly become more secure over the last 20+ years. As far as I know, all the major OS players are very good at patching discovered exploits quickly. Malware spread by social engineering (eg tricking someone to execute malicious code) is the most common way things are spread these days. Many IoT companies, in contrast, have root-level exploits that are laughably trivial to hack, and some don't seem to care that much at all when exploits are discovered (https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Undocumented-Backdoor-Account-in-DBLTek-GoIP/ https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Undocume...). Windows is imperfect I'm sure, but I'd rather connect a Windows machine to the public network than any so-called "smart" appliance at this point.