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To be fair Microsoft has never cared much about security. See the windows server (a relatively niche os on servers) second entry in this stat: https://www.statista.com/statistics/701020/major-operating-systems-targeted-by-ransomware/.
It is just that nowadays this kind of issues are more in the news because of "russian cyber criminals", while in the past no one really cared.
Not that I complain... Visibility is actually a good thing
It's not relatively niche on SMBs though. It's a major target so it'll always get hit.
It's far less common than linux oses... In any type of servers, including data storages. It is THE major target because it is a bad OS, nowadays primarily used by companies that haven't a good IT for the typical file shares used by tech illiterates easily victims of social engineering attacks. It's a explosive combination that results in that stat... Practically 100 % of successful ransomware attacks on servers is on windows servers, despite overall being much less used than competitors