"There are now 1,740 known, unpatched security flaws in Windows and other operating systems,"
"...and other operating systems" ??
C'mon Evo, most of these vulns are in Windows, not Linux or BeOS or FreeBSD or whatever. And most Linux vulnerabilities are patched within hours of someone releasing a proof-of-concept, let alone a flood of real attacks.
Yup, Linux has security flaws, but an order of magnitude fewer.