For what it's worth I'm familiar with Microsoft's security team (both for their infrastructure and code) first hand and they are some of the most competent indi

For what it's worth I'm familiar with Microsoft's security team (both for their infrastructure and code) first hand and they are some of the most competent individuals I've ever had the pleasure to know. I'm personally not a huge fan of Windows, and it definitely has flaws but the amount of considerations taken into account, and the speed with which issues are identified and repaired in a code base of that size, especially while maintaining a disgusting amount of backwards compatibility is crazy impressive. That aside, having access to the source code does make finding issues easier. It sounds like that knowledge is assumed in their risk assessments which would make that a fair statement.