Macworld’s News: Mad as hell, switching to Mac
Here’s an interesting piece of new for Windows user – at least, take the time to read it!
– psaI found it onMacworld’s News
Mad as hell, switching to Mac
By Winn Schwartau, Network World
This is my first column written on a Mac – ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot.
But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
In the coming weeks I’m going to keep a diary of an experiment my company began at 6 p.m. April 29, 2005 – an experiment predicated on the hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become a national economic security risk. I do not say this lightly, and I have never been a Microsoft basher, either. I never criticize a company without a fair bit of explanation, justification and supportive evidence.
I have come to the belief that there is a much easier, more secure way to use computers. After having spent several years focusing my security work on Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless, I also have come to the conclusion that if I’m having such security problems, heaven help the 98 percent of humanity who merely want a computer for e-mail and multimedia.(...)
(To say the least, this is an interesting time to be a Mac user. No matter what Microsoft may say, every independent survey (ie, no paid for by Microsoft) agree that the superior security of mac os X is architectural in nature, and unrelated to market shares and such FUD argumentation.)