Without Microsoft software, Ransomware would not hardly exist. I think the “downhill” has been a huge cliff for the past few years, but it’s getting worse. Nothing drives Azure business better.
That's just survivorship bias. Ransomware attacks are very low-tech and mostly rely on social engineering. (Unless you think the average hospital IT department is going to use an open-source patient tracking program and recompile it from source to pull in the latest openssl patches...)
People assume that if you just switch to Linux, you'll get world-class security no matter what you do. But, real-world use diminishes that significantly (non-technical users, IT teams who aren't command-line gurus, vendors who ship outdated patches, budgeting departments that won't approve expenses to move off out discontinued software, etc. Not to mention, Linux as a platform is battle-tested for server purposes only. Local exploits abound.
"Just use Linux" is easy to say, but I wonder, would it really improve things?
