weeks - 12:54 am on Sep 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

Well, this is certainly the Microsoft party line. But Apple's kernel is based on BSD, and its user interface is not kludged in underneath the real kernel functionality. Similarly, Linux is a kernel, and whatever GUI you choose runs on top as an application. Both of these designs were based, almost from the beginning, on multi-user, distributed networks. And so there are whole classes of "features" (ActiveX, you know who we mean) that even a brain-dead moron wouldn't put into application space. And in innumerable ways both of these designs are inherently more secure than anything based on MS-Windows could ever be. And they accomplish this without the avalanche of "need your permission to sneeze" messages as in Vista. Anyone interested in facts will look at, say, Netscape Navigator a few years ago, or the Apache web server today: products not defective-by-design which could dominate their niche without turning over all of the machines running them to the script kiddy mafia. And would note the security credentials being obtained by the current unix-class operating systems, and ... would expect the demise of Microsoft to be quickly followed by the demise of many other parasitic evils.

Thank you, hutch!

Yeah, probably a part of it is that Mac's OS is hard and Windows is easy, so easy pulls the pressure off of Mac. But that is a small part of it. Hutch can explain it better than I. But, the idea that MS' security problems are simply from a lot of hackers looking for market share is bogus.