Some users here are forgetting that Windows by itself is not an OS. I can not go to the store and buy the Windows operating system. There is Media Center (basically XP), XP Home, XP Pro, XP 64, 2000 Pro, NT, CE, and so on. Same goes with the various distros of *nix. I like to use Fedora, Redhat 9 and Win XP. I say use whatever works for you. I do believe that since you have a company (Microsoft) with such a huge OS market share, more people are writing malicious code to screw with Microsoft. It's also easy for malicious code to take adavantage of a system where most users are working on their personal pc as the administrator. Every owner of a new microsoft os is the admin of their pc. You never see instructions included with a dell pc with xp stating that users should work with the least amount of privliges. I also believe that you have more computer intelligent users using the a *nix system.
Given enough time, any OS can be exploited.
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Some users here are forgetting that Windows by itself is not an OS. I can not go to the store and buy the Windows operating system. There is Media Center (basically XP), XP Home, XP Pro, XP 64, 2000 Pro, NT, CE, and so on. Same goes with the various distros of *nix. I like to use Fedora, Redhat 9 and Win XP. I say use whatever works for you. I do believe that since you have a company (Microsoft) with such a huge OS market share, more people are writing malicious code to screw with Microsoft. It's also easy for malicious code to take adavantage of a system where most users are working on their personal pc as the administrator. Every owner of a new microsoft os is the admin of their pc. You never see instructions included with a dell pc with xp stating that users should work with the least amount of privliges. I also believe that you have more computer intelligent users using the a *nix system. Given enough time, any OS can be exploited.