The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Windows NT just keeps building more and more functionality in there.
I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like to play with software and figure out how to find exploits into the software. That requires lots of good technical talent and knowing how to do software testing.
When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.
With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising sales, so they don't put that much thought into the design of the system for security.
The fact is, you can get lost in the statistics, and I think a lot of people will be surprised by the Linux vulnerability numbers. But it's impossible to write perfectly secure software that's also functional.
To a large extent, this could be a failure with open source.
To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
You can get rid of all the ankle biters by using basic things, and people don't realize that,
They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web, ... There's a big difference.
I'm not going to say Macintosh is as inherently buggy as Windows was about five years ago. But the holiday is over.