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Again, you're making this point based on heresay. Of all the Dropbox competitors and cloud storage solutions, I'd tend to trust Microsoft the most because they will likely have the security experts employed to audit their products. Or simply that because they are Microsoft, 3rd-party security firms will investigate the security of Live Mesh.

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And yet there are a lot of active exploits targetting Windows. If your logic was sound, given that Windows is by far the most used system it should also be the most secure: then again I invite you to research the subject, security reports often show that it is more vulnerable than most linux/unixes. I find 7 to be an acceptable OS (and I still use it everyday) but blindly beliving that Microsoft ecosystem is secure because it is Microsoft's is a mistake.

It's not blindly believing Microsoft to be a better ecosystem. This has nothing to do with the OS. This is about the fact that they have a whole network of professionals who are more likely than a startup to audit their systems and keep it safe.

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