linux have SUPERPOWER

If Linux had as much market share on the desktop as Windows does, it'd be hit with viruses and spyware too.

Linux will never own a significant share of the desktop. Windows 7 is once again gonna pwn the penguin. Stay tuned.

Actually no, it has very little to do with market share and everything to do with the fundamental design flaws in Microsoft's operating system.

The Linux presence on the desktop is steadily increasing but "the desktop" as you understand it is a shrinking market and will become an increasingly antiquated and irrelevant idea over the next few years. The world is going mobile and Linux is the best positioned operating system to dominate the mobile market over the next few years.

So, "stay tuned".

It has everything to do with market share. Crackers write software to produce the biggest bang for their "buck", and in this case Windows is a major target. Not to worry though, because now they're focusing on Apple, which is really bad.

MS takes security seriously, and I don't have a problem with spyware or viruses on my systems (all Windows), because I have measures in place that prevent that from happening.

Nope sorry, you're wrong, it has everything to do with the design of the operating system.

M$ certainly does not take security seriously. To even suggest that is a very bad joke. They even market the insecurity of their operating system to us resellers as an opportunity to upsell third party security offerings and make more money. They even shoot down people who publicly disclose Windows security issues without their approval.

Be assured, NO ONE who is serious about security uses Windows.

That was ignorant. Maybe I'm just reading you the wrong way. But I want to say that I use Windows, in a dual boot with Linux mind you, and I care about my computer's security a lot.
I still will not deny that Linux is more secure, hell I'll even go for the gold and say that so is Mac.
But to say that it's because all Windows users don't care about security sounds like ignorant fanboyism.

I didn't say "Windows users don't care about security". Most Windows users are terribly ignorant when it comes to security and have no idea that Windows is far less secure than other operating systems. Only today I told a customer that we DO NOT recommend Windows be used for online banking at all. She looked shocked. I showed her how to use Firefox (it works with her bank) from a live Ubuntu CD. In any environment where security is critical NO ONE serious about security uses Windows.

Yeah, I guess I read that wrong. I get it now, and you're right. Windows is always the first on the shelf. So people just grab it I suppose.

With the economy, I'm definitely thinking that Linux will start showing up on much more PCs in stores. I would like to see Microsoft make Windows XP Open-Source in stead of discontinuing it. But that's obviously never going to happen.

Windows 7=Windows Vista with some little features like the "snap"-function.

It doesn't "pwn" the penguin.

@Antiks72 Actuall, Linux is creeping up the ladder in the market, I have both windows and linux, on my machine and I heavily favor Ubuntu Linux as a day to day OS, my windows 7 partition is only used for my flight simulator X-plane9 now. Linux may take hold of a larger market because it is less resource hungry, when it happens companies will be forced by their own interest to start making compatible hardware and software. Microsoft will probably not hold its size forever.

FOSS people have been saying that forever.