OK, John, even if I agree with everything you've said here, I would have to ask the question: How many of those Mandriva vulnerabilities are kernel-related, and how many are third-party packages? I'm not saying there are no kernel-related fixes. But the number of kernel-related fixes is certainly lower than the number of kernel-related fixes for WinXP every month.

My main point was that your system isn't very good if you're still finding bugs years later. And I don't limit my criticism to Windows, either. If versions of the Apple OS or Linux still contain bugs in the kernel after 3 or 6 years, then it wasn't designed properly. It's just that Windows seems especially poorly-coded when you consider the number of bugs already fixed.