Perhaps that's a little bit of an exaggeration. However, today I was reading an article over at The Register about IE7, and it made me realise how much better Windows is these days.
The move from 98 to 2000 lead to a far more stable system - it's just a shame the drivers were sh... bad. Then XP came along and things got better still, unfortunately it turned out XP had security that was... pants. Of course, that's quite different now, for the most part at least.
To that end, I've written a short news piece reflecting on how far security has come over a short period of time, much of it focusing on Microsoft's efforts. And before the Linux advocates get on my back, I'm still a big fan of Linux and F/OSS in general, but you can't deny that Windows really has got better.