The biggest issue IMHO is the software-monoculture: ~90% of home users are running the same family of operating systems and are using different versions of the same browser and mail client. If you find an exploitable bug (and there is no bug-free software!), your malware can spread easily and hit the majority of users. More diversity would help.
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You can't expect MS to say "Firefox is a very good browser, we are afrad to loose some IE-costumers."
The biggest issue IMHO is the software-monoculture: ~90% of home users are running the same family of operating systems and are using different versions of the same browser and mail client. If you find an exploitable bug (and there is no bug-free software!), your malware can spread easily and hit the majority of users. More diversity would help.
Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton compare Windows and Linux.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com wants to recruit 10,000 new members for their campagne!
Not exactly, you want/need maybe only a PC and you are forced to buy also an OS you don't want/need!