I think historically it WAS more secure. See Pogue's write up from 2003: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1214280000&

I think historically it WAS more secure. See Pogue's write up from 2003: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1214280000&en=1efe03e6ab949440&ei=5070 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18POGU... As time has gone on MS has made strides in the default shipping copies of Windows. SP3, Vista, WP7. I'm not sure if they're better the same or worse today compared to OSX (or linux) but I'd agree historically Windows was a total mess -- we'd have entire days of downtime to viruses as they took over the company. haven't seen one of those in years though.