complain if you will... (Score 2, Insightful)

True that M$ is nowhere near as secure as *nix; however, as you bash away and curse M$, remember one thing -- if it wasn't for M$, it's bugs, flaws and SIZE, you probably would never have been able to afford the computer you are using to post your bashings. If NOTHING else, at least Bill G. has pushed the market forward and the Windows monopoly has in turn pushed the hardware developers. It is irrelevant which operating system is the most widely used because there will always be the groups of people who don't want to conform and as such feel the need to promote whatever product they use as superior. Well often those people perceive "Alternative" to be synonymous with "Superior" -- that doesn't mean its true. If MAC's ruled the world, you can bet you ass that OSX would be nothing like what it is today - it would not have the slightest traces of *nix and would be the endless target of rants, bashes and various posts by people who just wanted to be "non-conformists". Funny thing about non-conformists though; most of them conform more than they admit. I'd be willing to bet that the majorority of the vitrolic posts concerning this article were derived by someone sitting at their PC - and if they had just finished playing a game (OTHER THAN freakin another freakin quake engine clone) they may still be logged into that hated Windows OS! Yes, bitching all the way, but still, somewhere secreted away is their installation of Windows. So stop ranting about the advantages of Linux and just be happy that perhaps somehting is now going to be done about the security issues at hand and have a little damn respect for the develpers that (misguided or not) have put an OS onto more machines than you can possibly imagine! Monopoly - sure, but at some point those monopolies server/ed a purpose... if it wasn't for the AT&T monopoly years ago you'd still be turning a damn crank to talk to Martha the switchboard operator to call Andy and Barney down at the sheriff's department...

So in closing - who gives a rats ass what OS you run, ANY attention to security is good for EVERYONE!