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Actually I'm sure many other products are just as bad as microsoft, the only difference is that a lot of people hate microsoft. That is why they are targeted so often.
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Windows' vulnerability largely stems from its structure & age. It's monolithic, and it contains much legacy code & logic written for an earlier world of threats. The monolithic design makes it tough to improve one piece without creating another opening so we roll along with updates and updates for updates. They've improved their default configurations and put up walls, especially with SP2, but the whole recipe is dangerous. With luck their efforts on Longhorn will produce results.
The point about this product being a target for attackers is spot on. It's likely this will be another IE with rapid-fire security updates, if only because it's going to be the most common AV product. Once every system has a default AV product installed that's where the attackers must start to have any chance of success.
As for MS intentionally creating openings in their code, you can be sure they'd rather not have the problem in the first place. "Vulnerability" has been a big rock in their shoe for a long time. Not to say we won't hear more about the conflict of interest every time an obvious hole is discovered.
