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85% or more of the cybersecurity market is about, and because of, Windows.
Srs, if Windows wasn't used at all, cybersecurity would be as big an industry as Etsy.
Windows tries to mimic Unix for all its "important" features, but it isn't. It's a surveillance slop sundae on top of decades of organic growth on top of bad decisions based on DOS. And it's made them one of the richest companies in the history of the world.
I guess people would then make efforts to breach systems elsewhere, but because windows is big it is currently the most targeted.
That's true to a point.
Linux is the biggest but the big customers have dedicated teams, have strong enough teams that getting in isn't worth as much effort, and can push fixes upstream.