Less likely...perhaps, but for all the wrong reasons ;) That is, Windows is a target that's an order of magnitude bigger - of course there will be more attacks

Less likely...perhaps, but for all the wrong reasons ;) That is, Windows is a target that's an order of magnitude bigger - of course there will be more attacks. The kernel is auditable...maybe, possibly, theoretically, to a point - but what good is a kernel, when there's unauditable firmware between the OS and the hardware?