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Google Switches Away from Windows (Mostly to Mac) Due to Security Concerns
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Linux would be the better choice. But that's partly because I want them to release a full-fledged desktop OS. 
By all rights, it should have been a Google/Microsoft fight over the past few months in terms of all these new Google toys coming out.
But it hasn't been. It's been a Google/Apple fight according to all the tech blogs.
Google knows that MS is the bigger challenger but they're going to defeat them by ignoring them. Google has already won the first round...they've convinced the tech press that Microsoft doesn't even matter and that Google/Apple is the only fight worth writing about.
Google may well be switching their computers for security reasons, but this is also an important part of their war on Microsoft.
Just keep saying that they don't matter and people will believe it. (And gee, it really seems to be working!)
But it hasn't been. It's been a Google/Apple fight according to all the tech blogs.
Google knows that MS is the bigger challenger but they're going to defeat them by ignoring them. Google has already won the first round...they've convinced the tech press that Microsoft doesn't even matter and that Google/Apple is the only fight worth writing about.
Google may well be switching their computers for security reasons, but this is also an important part of their war on Microsoft.
Just keep saying that they don't matter and people will believe it. (And gee, it really seems to be working!)
Steve Jobs will be happy.
I'd think Google would order what, mostly Desktops and 15" MBP's?
I wonder if it will be an immediate switch or gradual phase out? If immediate could it mean shipping delays on MBP's for example?
I think it's great news!
I'd think Google would order what, mostly Desktops and 15" MBP's?
I wonder if it will be an immediate switch or gradual phase out? If immediate could it mean shipping delays on MBP's for example?
I think it's great news!
Google is a very large and very successful firm. If they can ditch Windows, WHAT EXCUSE DOES YOUR COMPANY HAVE NOT TO DO THE SAME THING?
Bad PR indeed.
Bad PR indeed.
Uh, no. The US Government will be using Windows until the Apocalypse. They probably won't even update to IE 8 by then. That is... those offices that actually have internet access.
Heh.
Why the hell are they using internet explorer? I thought google was a (somewhat) smart company. They could have just used Firefox and saved money for replacing all their computers
Seriously, it seems a bit overkill imho.
Especially since anyone can tell you IE sux (well I guess not everyone.. I still can't believe there are people using IE). And there are plenty of options for other browsers they could use (like Google's own browser for example). If the security breach was through IE... well, um, yeah, most people could tell you IE is not that secure. And it would be easy enough just to ban IE from people's computer (or use of it... Does windows still do the thing where if you remove IE you mess up the OS? I guess I could see that if you couldn't remove it from the computer, which means Google couldn't effectively make sure it wasn't being used, I could see banning windows entirely. Still seems like an over reaction but less so).
Android is a mobile OS, mostly for smartphones at this point. It's not a functional mainstream desktop environment at this time.I want to know why google doesn't switch to android instead.
Great. So the people that want to hack google for various reasons will now look for ways to hack OSX.
Security should always be top priority.
Google employees are getting new Macs. I bet most will be.
Google employees are getting new Macs. I bet most will be
.Why the hell are they using internet explorer? I thought google was a (somewhat) smart company. They could have just used Firefox and saved money for replacing all their computers
The better question is, why aren't they using Chrome?
Google and the other companies hacked (Yahoo, Adobe, etc) were all victims because of a zero-day Internet Explorer hack.
But I'm sure you could have done much better than the employees of all of these multi-billion dollar companies.
Yeah, MBPs, Mac-minis, and iMacs. Not sure if they would really use the horsepower of the MacPros.... Is anything Google makes multi-core aware?
I want to know why google doesn't switch to android instead.
I think that you mean Chrome OS
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-operating-system.html
Chrome OS works by having all its applications in "the cloud".
Eventually this is what Google is wanting to be able to do. Docs, Email, Picassa etc everything in the cloud with no core apps on your desktop just a fast link to their services direct from their OS. (monopoly??)
But this wont work as a development platform as they dont have the key dev apps out there in the cloud for starters, and secondly its FAR from stable and secure.
Hell if they were worried about being hacked while running windows imagine if all their trade secrets were in the cloud for all to find. They would never even know they had been hacked until one day someone comes out with a new phone that looks and works just like the one they had been planning..... just not quite as good
(hmmm that sounds familiar)No.
Google has about 10,000 employees. The fact they're switching to a (largely) Linux/OS X combination is statistically insignificant, plus those systems are probably being monitored by a pretty good IT team.
OS X becomes a target when a billion consumers are users.
Crackers are interested in the low-hanging fruit.
You're paying too much attention to the quantity of the target rather than the desirability of the target. China was not hacking Google because they were using Windows. They were hacking Windows because Google was using it. Now there will be incentive for the hackers to learn to hack OS X.