Unix was designed by scientists for scientists

MS was designed in a garage by two guys that wanted to make money


Unix was made to do complex calculations for multiple users simultaneously.

MS was made for home office and small business. Great for writing documents, spread sheets and keeping track of contacts.

*nix comes bundeled with many GPL networking tools

windows comes with the basic things they’ve stolen.

Up until recently win didn’t support the raw sockets necessary for packet spoofing and other things. It also didn’t have Pcap libs, a good scripting language and many other features used in hacking. Since many of these great things are being ported over to windows its not as essential to have *nix as in the past but it’ll be a long time if ever until windows users (not micro-soft itself) completely catch up.