First off, and this should go without saying...
If it can be built, it can be broken.
MS is incapable of building a perfect system, as is any other vendor out there, because there will be people who will spend hours and weeks finding a way to break it. I am a game programmer, and no matter how hard I try to make things fair for my players, there are a few who find a way around EVERY security measure. 'Nix users are "safer" because they arent the biggest target. It is always easier to be in second place because people by nature want to try and knock #1 off of top of the mountain. Could MS do a better job, probably. I am not the worlds best programmer, but I hold my own, and I have drawn things out from top to bottom, and at the end of the day, I still come up with a couple of logic / run-time errors inside of 100K lines of code that get found by a player who takes advantage of it. I fix it, player finds another logic error. I would love to see a bare OS from MS with just the networking pack / directx support though. I would love for anyone on here to show me a link to a 100% stable, secure, uncrashable, perfectly designed for every user 'Nix OS. Bottom line:
"There is no patch for human stupidity"

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