Actually, I was being dead serious. I can't tell you how much money my company lost when the latest big windows worm crippled our network.
I run Parallels on my Mac, and I felt like I was loading a virus when I installed Windows....
Thats because you were. :-)
I use Linux exclusively on bare metal. When I must run MS-Windows, I run it in vmware, preferrably with host-only networking, so it can't do any harm.
Are you aware that millions of people have been running Windows for years with no ill effects? It’s not exactly a secret.