As someone wrote me the other day, Windows comes from a box. Linux comes from a community.
Interesting article: it demonstrates that for arbitrarily chosen time periods, one can claim that one OS is more secure than another. But in all the IT jobs I’ve held, the only time period you get to work in is the present. If things are broken now, reflecting on some random quarter from 1999 where things were fine doesn’t fix the problem.
If the brain trust in Redmond could buckle down and make the the hard decision to fix things instead of making these foolish comparisons, they would be better off.