[tptacek]

Yoran wasn't making a philosophical point about Microsoft. He was responding to the news cycle: we had just suffered the "Summer of Worms", which, because of Microsoft's position in the market, involved almost exclusively Microsoft systems.

Microsoft, to their credit, responded admirably to the events: they invested a spectacular amount of money shoring up the nuts-and-bolts quality of their software, training their entire development team (one of the largest in the world) on secure coding standards, hiring researchers to revise their libraries and deprecate unsafe interfaces, and adopting hardened C/C++ runtimes.