I have been noticing a general trend in the type of clients I've been getting recently and the problems they are bringing their machines in for. Overall I have noticed a pretty big decline in the number of computers they had been infected with viruses or spyware.

This is definitely good news across the board. Even better, the computers that I do see that have been infected are usually not been updated automatically. This tells me that Microsoft must be doing something right.

Now I know that Microsoft has really taken a beating about security over the years. In some cases they have earned it, but sometimes I think they really have gotten a raw deal. Whatever the case it really appears that computer infections are happening less frequently.

Of course this is just my perspective. To definitively say would take some pretty serious research. Unfortunately, if the people best geared ...