>Additionally the more widely used a platform the more third >party applications that will be developed for it. The more >third party applications the greater possibility of >vunerabilites.

But you forgot apache and IIS...

>Along the same lines, the more widely used the platform the >more people with knowledge about the system. So if we say >that 2% of a platforms user base are developing hacking >tools or otherwise engaged in hacking activities:

I think you'll find the number of people
writing exploits fades into insignificance compared with
the number you're actually trying to state - the number of folks exploiting boxes. Most exploits require the ability to
use a browser and an application.

Remember, without an OS you wouldn't be using a computer, a few would, because they'd write their own, the fact they give / sell folk like yourself one is how the numbers grow.

You bought an OS, that hasn't increased the number of people who can write an OS - in the same way, se

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