This is an angle I've been trying to convince others of since the report came out. From a medium to large corporate standpoint, introducing multiple operating systems and different packages of the same software for all your different OSes to all end users makes patch management and rollout a potential nightmare. But where most of the problem lies isn't in the corporate arena, anyway. Most companies have decent firewalls and email filters in place which will catch the majority of attacks. It's the home users and small business with five year old, un-patched operating systems directly connected to the internet which are the most affected. And they aren't paying any attention to this report, anyway.

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