At least as measured by number of Critical and Important security updates.
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Ed Bott 
Not a huge surprise to people who’ve used Vista. I see far less infected computers running Vista than XP. The one really bad instance of a Vista machine being hosed was a clever bit of social engineering, by something called PC anti-spyware. It provided a pp-up indicating the machine was infected, the user allowed the UAC prompt and provided the password. The malware looked a lot like the McAfee antivirus so I understand how they were fooled, as the machine had originally shipped with McAfee pre-installed.
Fortunately there was a good backup, I was impressed with the Vista backup and restore program, even the desktop icons were restored as well as all data.
Who in their right mind would think XP is more secure anyways?