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SPIEGEL: Microsoft is not only a part of the solution, but also, because of its market power, part of the problem. When a company provides more than 90 percent of all personal computers with software it is inevitably a target for hackers interested in causing the most damage possible.

Gates: There are actually a large number of operating systems in addition to Windows, for example, such as OS from Apple or Linux and Unix...

SPIEGEL: ... but in the realm of normal personal computers, they don't play a large role worldwide.

Gates: The truth is: the fewer operating systems there are within a company, the better it is from a security point of view.

SPIEGEL: I beg your pardon?