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When asked how he knows it is not as vulnerable to viruses, Ulander explained it would have fewer holes to exploits due to the fact it is built on top of Linux.
"How [Microsoft] built their OS makes it fairly easy to exploit," said Ulander. "Virus writers can script to their macro environment."
I realize that this is mostly just marketing speak - however, Ulander may as well have painted a target on his back. Once MadHatter ships, the black hats out there are going to take that statement as a challenge...
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