One of the major points is not just that Microsoft has a monopoly monoculture, but that it uses its monopoly position to limit interoperability, with one of the primary tools being vastly and artificially increasing complexity.

It is this gross increase in complexity that causes much of the problems. More complex systems are inherantly harder to secure.

As a result, Microsoft can't even get their OWN fixes rights as a result when something does goes wrong: Bugtraq has rumors of an RPC-DCOM variant attack that will at least DOS the service on fully patched XP, and remember the Object Type fiasco.

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