And the last windows 7 update black screened my pc and left me in limbo till I was able to restore. What exactly is your point? Windows is not a standard to be held higher than..well anything.
The parent commenter used Windows 10 as an example and you used Windows...7. His point, which is that Microsoft actively researches and implements OS-level security improvements, hasn't been rebutted by your statement about Windows 7.
Windows 7 was released in 2009. There are substantial proactive improvements that Microsoft cannot feasibly backport to older OS versions even if they're still within the support period, and the corporate culture was simply different when Windows 7 was released.
Substantial proactive improvements not relevant to the same build|OS which comes full circle to the linux comment which is so hated. That is: anyone with source and knowledge can make it work and those without...blackscreen.
I think the vast majority of people would say Windows has been getting much better in security since the days of XP. People can choose Linux, BSD, MacOS or Windows and have a good choice that is reasonably secure.
Windows 7 was released in 2009. There are substantial proactive improvements that Microsoft cannot feasibly backport to older OS versions even if they're still within the support period, and the corporate culture was simply different when Windows 7 was released.