Everybody likes to bash Microsoft, but you wouldn't leave your doors and windows wide open and invite any stranger to come into your house and hang out forever.
No, you wouldn't, but you would expect the home-builder to have installed doors with locks and windows that lock form the inside, not charge you extra for retrofitting your house with the, or (a better analogy still), steadfastly refuse to put decent locks and doors on your house, then charge you a monthly fee for a fancy burglar alarm system.
Sorry, but MS's cavalier attitude toward security deserves 'bashing'.