Are any other vendors better? I don’t think this is a MS issue.
this affects not only the operating system and platform itself, but also major applications, development philosophies, major utilities and even the approaches used to operate it in production.
it's actually an interesting question, while internet security problems largely outmoded old pc inspired designs and product-market fit (the diy part time sysadmin), will they outmode the personal operation of any software... that is, will computer security problems grow to the point to where everything must be actively managed and defended?