said by Arne Bolen:said by Mike Wolf:oh come on now don't start with the Windows bashing, You're better then that.
It's not Windows bashing, it's a fact.
Ok, this is off topic, but I would suggest that the relative security of Windows is much less cut and dried than the common perception that Windows is Swiss Cheese. Microsoft has invested more time and money in security than any of the other majors. Their security response center is light years ahead of most of the other majors: Oracle, Adobe, and Apple are miles behind and much slower in patching. All software has bugs; a decent response center is a necessary resource for security. Microsoft has in the last few years been at the forefront of many new security technologies and its software under the watchful eye of security researchers more than other system. For example, OpenBSD was first non-research OS to implement ASLR, various Linux kernel builds were next (with the early ones being rather weak), but Microsoft was not too far behind with a reasonably complete ASLR in Vista and continual improvements since then. This was ahead of Mac OSX, which didn't get full ASLR until Lion and Mountain Lion for the kernel.
I would suggest that the results of the Pwn2Own contest, where people earn prizes for exploits, is probably a better test than statements about the number of exploits, where Window's market share (and large numbers of older versions of Windows) makes it a much more logical target. If you look at the results of the Pwn2Own annual contest Windows does quite well. Linux probably survives the best over the years, but OSX is certainly not ahead of Windows over the years. In fact, Windows itself is never targeted in these attacks anymore (too difficult), and it's much more common to exploit 3rd party software, browsers in particular, and browser plugins (cough flash cough java). Of the browsers, Safari has been exploited every year except this year. This year was the first that either IE9 and Chrome were exploited.