Am I the only one that notices that Aberdeen seems to be mentioned on every attempt at good publicity by Microsoft? Sure, Windows may be secure by Microsoft standards, but what isn't? *nix (Linux, Unix, all flavors of BSD, etc) is still the most secure operating system out there besides one which you write by yourself for yourself. Better yet, open-source allows the user to patch the OS as new vulnerablities are found. With closed-source software such as Windows, you may be waiting 6 months of more for an update to download, and downloading can take a lot of time. Also, how many viruses and exploits do you see out there for *nix? There are definetly more for Windows. I think you may be able to see what I am getting at. Microsoft named it Windows for an obvious reason: it has many windows in which to break in through.

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