You owe me a keyboardz.

My GF has a Win7 computer and it already has an "additional" toolbar showing up in all Google queries (which she never consciously installed). I told her not to run as Admin, which she does. So I assume, yes, Windows 7 is still Insecure As Hell. Maybe she got it via the Malware-in-icon exploit, which Microsoft Corporation had in all Windows versions since since 1995 (until 2011).

How does it feel when Steve sticks a roll of dollar bills into your anus ?

Real Java programs freeze occasionally for a second or more to perform garbage collection. That simply kills user experience and makes people hate a program. That is why high-quality software cannot be made using Java (or equivalent systems like .Net).

It worked extremely well for a long time. It still does work extremely well for many corporations in many use cases. Think IKEA. Dumb terminals are secure, they all have the same software config, the same basic state.

.. we have LaTeX and OpenOffice. You can run those as libraries or efficient command-line tools on a server to generate a nice-looking PDF, which the user can then print. We can also render these documents into a bitmap to send it to a web app for display.
I know M$ hates everything which is a real alternative to their technologies, but maybe you want to get out of their claws and enlighten yourself to other options. Options which are not monolithic, but an orchestration of many free, reliable and compact tools. You could start with GWT, Perl, pdf2latex, Apache, Linux.

The "Google Computer", of course. It will contain all your data, nicely indexed for those who pay for The Computer.

A) Well-designed Chinese Spearphishes (ask Lockheed Martin and their F22 team)
B) Busty Russian Viruses

Don't forget Pascal-based IDEs. Yes, the number of serious IDE/language options has been growing almost exponentially during the last few years. Did I mention VisualWorks Smalltalk ? Expensive, but still an excellent option.

I think you should look at Delphi or Lazarus.

GWT takes a lot of pain out of JS development and I trust the JS runtimes much more than these Malware APIs like Java Web Start and the JVM.

In my experience, GWT-based apps will run nicely on various different browsers and various different versions of each. Those geniuses at Google did some pretty hard work to make that happen. Because they need this kind of infrastructure to make Google Mail and Google Docs happen.
No, I don't work for Google, I think they are collecting like crazy and final no, GWT is not hardwired to the Googleplex; it is a very nice, reliable and well-made piece of open source.

Microsoft copied Java to the point of having the same issues with runtime library versions as the Original, Java. It turns out that Java was not a real threat (you can't make compelling, high-performance, realtime games and applications with it), but Bill Gates made sure this threat was responded to.

Get rid of Java ASAP. Next to Flash it is the most dangerous thing in the computer world.

..that nobody at Adobe Inc. seems to have a proper Computer Science Education. They are incapable of doing basic things like writing proper, strict parsers. They really think it is a good idea to try to fix "typing errors" with really brain-dead heuristics in things like the PDF or Flash parsers.
What is the result of all that incompetence ? Adobe products are the Premier Malware API. When I have my tinfoil hat donned, I always claim they are in the pay of Beijing.