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Honey you need to get out more...

914four 17th Aug 2009

First, I do understand that you have a preference for Vista and are a little biased in that direction, and I won't try to convince you that you should switch to OSX, but have you read: "Bypassing Browser Memory Protections
Setting back browser security by 10 years" by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd? (Those guys work for IBM btw)
The fact is that Vista has many weaknesses as well, even if on paper it appears more robust, and many of these are due to lax implementation of security features. I'm not saying OSX is better, far from it, but I will say that I find it is more usable, and secure enough for what I do. Our IT has standardized on Apple laptops (except for Safari; we use Firefox as our browser of choice), I suspect they aren't loosing sleep over it's insecurities either. It comes down to a) How well you follow best practices and b) How big of a target are you? On that second point, I think OSX is still a much less likely target for malware than Windows.
So, OK, OSX may have more vulnerabilities on paper, but in the real world it's still safer than Windows, at least for the time being.