Spot on. That is what I always say on these forums, all OS systems have pros and cons.
There use to be a lot of the old guard on here that were former prisoners of microsoft, switched during some bad microsoft OS implementations and have not used windows 7 etc, but post that any Microsoft OS is crap based on old war wounds. They refuse to accept that microsoft can do a good OS.
The younger generation, I think it comes down to I'm too cool, owning a mac is so much cooler than a windows PC, Generation Y. Myself having gone through so many OS systems cannot understand how someone could think windows 7 as an OS is terrible, apart from having the wrong brand against it.
Windows 7, as great as it is, still suffers from the *need* to have anti-virus, anti-malware. I know. I know. OS X has seen its small share of trojans but, as a longtime user, I've never experienced a problem on Mac. Ever. And I've been to some seedy sites.
Also, many Windows users on MacRumors claim to have never gotten a virus and use nothing. That's HARD to believe.
Now, compare that to Windows 7 Professional running enterprise level Norton's which got malware from a website. This isn't some random anecdote (well, to *you* it is), but it happened to me personally at my last job. The website managed to push something to the computer and then the malware and Norton's kept canceling each other out and, by their very nature, auto-started. It was basically fighting with itself.
The admin said, "When enterprise level antivirus gets beaten, there's no sense in trying to clean the computer. We're better off reinstalling Windows."
I've had to reinstall the Mac OS less times since 1988, than many Windows users in a 2-3 year period. That's a sad fact.
So, as much as I like Windows 7 and run it in VirtualBox, there's nothing you can tell me about its security or stability (registry nonsense that still happens, like corrupt profiles) that tells me it's better than OS X. Windows wins on games... and that's it.
