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Why did this get modded down? It is a plain, straightforward, demonstrable fact.

Here is a security firm's estimate of infection rates (it is unstated, but this is basically for Windows PCs):
http://gorumors.com/crunchies/malware-infection-rate-worldwide/

If accurate, that represents literally billions of malware-infected Windows PCs. Billions of times as many infections as any other kind of machine. (Microsoft would put the infection rate much lower, but that just changes it from 'billions' to 'hundreds of millions'). By induction, it is relatively easy to conclude that essentially all of the effort of malware perpetrators is directed at the Windows userbase target.

Regardless of the reasons why this is so, it still is so. It is the fact.

An ordinary user of Windows, demonstrably, clearly, undeniably, faces many orders of magnitude greater risk of getting a malware infection than does the same user running Linux.

Apprently, there are some Windows supporters out there having a very hard time facing this fact.

Apparently also, as perhaps evidenced by the Dell website re-wording, it is a straightforward fact that some parties do not want people to be aware of.

Edited 2010-06-23 23:55 UTC