This entire article is a misunderstanding of whats happening with the windows platform. Wphone 8 merged the phone and tablet os. thus surface and phone were running the same os. surface pro was always full windows. wphone 10 merged the kernels of w10 and the wphablet os. What is about to happen is the merging of the total phablet/windows desktop os, allowing full blown applications to run on the phablet as well as the desktop. Windows 10s is a locked down somewhat stripped os for mobile and imbedded devices, disallowing non MS store apps. One convergence has been released your computer will no longer be a separate device. your phone will have a google glass like vid/audio interface with a wireless interface so that when you want a standard keyboard, monitor set up all you need to do is walk to you office.
Lastly w10 is being ported to ARM based systems, like iPhone and android so any modern handset 2016+ could be a personal mobile computer. Since the inherent insecurity of linix based systems this could cause a rapid change to windows which has the benefit of being attacked so much that they learned how to lock it down better then other modern os’s
Excellent assessment.
If you didn’t understand waynesa98’s post the first time read it again.
That's an interesting perspective. Die-hard Windows fan, I take it. :-)
I agree that Windows has suffered more than its share of attacks over the years (90% of the market share, but >99.9% of the attacks), giving more than ample opportunity to improve. Windows is (at last) getting about as secure as the other major consumer OSes. Still has a way to go to get to where the BSD Unixes are, but they're not consumer OSes.
So granted all OSes have their pros and cons. But "inherent insecurity" is not something normally associated with Linux. What's your source for that curious assessment?