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I’m not a conspiracy buff by any means, but sometimes I feel that Microsoft is doing this or purpose. Each version of Windows is supposed to eliminate all these intrusion problems, yet they either still exist or new problems crop up.

Microsoft has a gazillion programmers and a gazillion dollars and they can’t come up with a piece of software that can’t be penetrated by amateur hackers????!!! As Yoda would say, “a break give me”.

Nah, Microsoft's problems are all legacy and integration related. They have to keep all the old programs working and everything was based on old DOS crap. If they don't support the old programs customers won't/can't upgrade.

Microsoft also wants to make sure that their programs run fast so they put in nice little hooks (processor short cuts) for their own programs that no one else can use. But it turns out that those nice little 'hooks' opened them up for harmful exploits. Supposedly Vista has fixed all of those and that is one reason why it took them so long. Vista's primary reason for existence is to get control of the security issues and prevent piracy.