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Google Switches Away from Windows (Mostly to Mac) Due to Security Concerns
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Will Google minimize use of Adobe products on those Macs?
One of the largest security risks is through Adobe products. Apple's preview is faster, more functional, and far more secure than Adobe reader. Will Google strongly suggest to its employees to avoid things like Reader -- or at least turn off the scripting "feature" in that software?
One of the largest security risks is through Adobe products. Apple's preview is faster, more functional, and far more secure than Adobe reader. Will Google strongly suggest to its employees to avoid things like Reader -- or at least turn off the scripting "feature" in that software?
Actually, no. If you feel you need a Windows machine you need to get clearance from the very top of the company's senior management.
Google's long term goal is to be running totally on their own software; Chrome. However, in the short haul, they are dropping Windows like it was a steaming turd.
Here is a quote from the original story:
Before the security, there was a directive by the company to try to run things on Google products, said the employee. It was a long time coming.
One other quote, quite funny to me, was this one:
The move created mild discontent among some Google employees, appreciative of the choice in operating systems granted to them - an unusual feature in large companies. But many employees were relieved they could still use Macs and Linux. It would have made more people upset if they banned Macs rather than Windows, he added.
Hopefully they're smart enough to hold off for the impending Mac Mini update. (An update should be happening in June sometime me thinks)
And yet IE6's backwardness is creating an incentive to keep it in some places.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...tm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
I was a pc guy for 7 years before 8 months ago i switched to mac and it took me less then a day to get the concepts down.
I suspect the number of people using PCs as we know it will fall like 8-Track music player users in the next year or two... the future for the average Joe who only surfs, e-mails, stores pictures, plays games, watches movies and reads is iPad type products. So the percentage adoption will not even be based on PCs soon. The ground will simply move from under Microsoft's feet.
exactly. Nice PR for Apple but big whoopedy dooo. MS Windows is installed on billions (literally) of BUSINESS machines and if one company of 10,000 users wants to have a knee-jerk reaction and move to Linux and/or Mac, big deal. Nothing in this world is 100% secure or safe or perfect.
This is the first time I've ever read about any company throwing out MS (other than Apple and I'm sure somewhere in Apple are a few PC servers)
-Eric
Bottom line is: Most people who use a Mac is because of positive choice. Most people who use windows are really indifferent, they use it because it is given / they don't know other OS / everyone else uses it / etc.
Most of their windows users were probably reps, marketing (not design), doctors, dentists (knowing google), etc. When I lived near Ann Arbor I'd see them fly out of Detroit Metro all the time. They are definitely not Linux types. They were not only equiped with google branded luggage, etc. but were dressed like lawyers. Google is the only company I know with branded luggage.
You fail, not me.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9054798/Mac_market_share_breaks_8_mark_in_2007_s_final_days
Mac hovers around 10%. Remember, I'm a longtime AAPL shareholder. I'm totally aware about where Apple stands in these matters.
The fact of the matter is that Apple is no where near 15% worldwide marketshare. They don't need to be. It's mostly about margins, not raw revenue.
Probably no effect.
You should expect Google products and services to remain the same.
And...uhhh...how is security fear of Microsoft spying any different than the Chinese spying security?
The original story says that this changeover was initiated by the January Chinese spy penetration and the internal news of the switchover is just now leaking out. Google's long term plan is to go to Chrome OS, but Chrome's not ready for Prime Time yet.
Personally, I'm not too sure how secure Chrome might be when it comes out the gate. No one writes an OS and plugs all the holes initially. Even OSX had a buffer over-run hole that had to be plugged.
I'm not surprised - Macs have a big presence in most companies in the Bay Area. Google has been offering their employees a choice for some time now, and a very large percentage chose Macs. There was a picture going around on the interwebs a couple of years ago of the YouTube campus, and everyone was using a MBP. I can't find the picture now though.
The company I work for now also gives us a choice, and two people in my office of 30 or so use PCs exclusively - both are business, not engineering. Some use Macs as their main machine with Windows as a secondary computer. Same goes for our main office - any exclusively Windows users are on the business side.
Earlier this year I was on the Yahoo campus, twice, and I saw a single PC. And it was running Linux.
Mozilla does everything on MacPros, with non-OS X operating systems running in VMs.
The company I work for now also gives us a choice, and two people in my office of 30 or so use PCs exclusively - both are business, not engineering. Some use Macs as their main machine with Windows as a secondary computer. Same goes for our main office - any exclusively Windows users are on the business side.
Earlier this year I was on the Yahoo campus, twice, and I saw a single PC. And it was running Linux.
Mozilla does everything on MacPros, with non-OS X operating systems running in VMs.
God, this is horrible news. HORRIBLE. Not the hack but the fact that google is switching to mac and not doing windows anymore. Just makes MAC that much more vulnerable and targeted for viruses now. JESUS. That is why I picked mac because it isn't "popular".
In the large business world (i.e. large finance, banking, insurance, gov, etc) it's windows and will be for quite awhile ...
Apple is doing well in the US/Europe home market.