Thursday, May 26, 2005
Intel CEO: Want Security? Buy a Mac
New Intel CEO Paul Otellini told Wall Street Journal tech writer Walter Mossberg that "[h]e spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, 'If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.'" This should be earth shattering news in the computing world.
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I suspect that if Macs were more popular, they would have the same spyware problems PCs do. It could be that Mac users are currently simply free-riding on PC users.
They certainly would have more. But a big part of Windows' insecurity results from Microsoft's unwillingnes to close open backdoors. Microsoft makes affirmative decisions to keep features unlocked as standard when the OS ships.
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