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Originally Posted by arsenal
Not really. Part of it is that Mac OSX architecture is inherently safer than previous versions of windows. Just because Mac OSX makes the actual user run under an account that doesn't have full permissions to the entire system. Where as in Windows, the user was always running as administrator. Same goes with users of *NIX systems. Unless those users are complete ID 10 T 's, they are not running as root.
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Kinda tangential to this, this argument only applies to versions of windows prior to Vista. Vista has implemented a system of User Access Control that mimics the *NIX style (SUDO). Unfortunately it's a bit on the irritating side mostly due to shotty 3rd party programming, particularly from the device market (ATI, nVidia.... tsk tsk). When Windows programmers learn to stop assuming they have the right to modify any file on my PC, the problems will decrease.
Mac's benefit from a locked down platform that has trained their programmers to be more mindful of what they are doing. This has lead to some higher quality programming that takes less liberties with the system.