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No. Why would you even use Windows in 2017?

Don't want to be a buzzkill but MacOS malware is growing faster then Windows malware ever was. 2016 MacOS malware up by ~750%[0].

2017 will be even bigger. The more users you have - the more malware you get.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/06/mac-malware-up-744-perc...

Percentage increases don't tell you the whole story.

For example suppose you have only "1" malware for your OS. Next year you have "2", a 100% growth rate.

Now suppose you have a shitty OS with 1000 malware. Next year it has 1200 malware, a 20% growth rate.

Someone without this knowledge would go about and claim the second OS is "safer", but the truth is both OS's are just experiencing an exponential growth rate, the first OS is just at the first stages of the curve.

I was not implying that. What I said is that MacOS malware grows like crazy.

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