Android is written from the bottom up to stop any spam, malware, bad apps, and so on from running. I hope now that an OS of any kind is written to stop bad things it can go on the desktop also. I'm sure that isn't Google's plan but who knows.
Linux Format June 2008 has a nice article on it.
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