Microsoft folks celebrate away and post your joy here. Apple fans flame away all you want, nothing can ruin this wonderful, long time coming day for me. I feel like I am walking on the Clouds portrayed on the Windows 95 Desktop. Apple will be busy over the next few weeks cutting all thier gloating about security from all thier marketing material. There won't be anything left after the trimming except Time Machine ( oooooooOOOooo ) and the admittedly coolest hardware in the world. How about replacing it with a new slogan like "When it comes to security, we are almost as good as Joomla." I can almost visualize that Apple TV ad guy saying that with his calm demeanor. O happy day!
There are just as many viruses attacking Mac as PC.
I have both. At home, I like my Mac, but like PC, it can be frustrating.
I don’t agree that Mac is better necessarily. It’s just a different tool. It has a lot of fun applications. But when you are going from one website to another, chances are pretty good that if you have PC, you won’t have as many issues with incompatibility with the site.
I’ll give you about 5 minutes before you’re overwhelmed by Linux guys...
(Yea, I hate those annoying Apple ads, too.)
One word in favor of PC: GAMES!
Tech PING!
Glad this news sends a breeze up your skirt.
After 20+ years in the computing industry, and over a decade of having to put up with the fecal matter Microsoft ships as software, I decided to switch to the Mac.
I now waste much less time on security issues than I used to. I certainly waste none on rebuilding my system from scratch, as I used to. Apple’s hardware and OS offers me an environment where I can run both Windows and Linux/FreeBSD if I want (and I do) as guests under OS X. The net result is a more stable Windows environment.
And FWIW - I run Windows as a guest under OS X every single day the stock market is open. The reason I now run Windows as a guest OS under OS X is that I have money riding on the issue. Downtime used to cost me dearly to play rebuild-the-system games under Windows.
ROFLMAO!!!
What’s the name of the dude that shills for Apple on this forum? Swordmaker? Would love to hear from him or her.
You really should get out more.
But thanks for posting. This lets me know I shouldn’t bother buying an Apple.
Quantity != Severity
Get back to me when a self-replicating virus actually exists for OS X.
"Microsoft held on to the top spot for the number of public exploits"
Vulnerabilities are theoretical, as in "If someone did this and this and had access to this and a user clicked this and then this, then someone could possibly compromise the machine."
Exploits are out there hurting people, right now.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
And your own life is improved how, exactly? Hoping for the destruction of others is a form of envy; the same kind of envy exploited by Dems when they yammer on about soaking the rich.
My husband bought me a MacBook for moms day and I could not be happier. I think it is a matter of personal taste and for me this is the best machine I have ever used.
Ummmm... gloat away. Name ONE vulnerability that has cause a single issue in the “wild”... just one. Go ahead... I am waiting...
(crickets chirping.....)
The difference now is that Apple is staying ahead of the vulnerability game. While Windows users actually start getting attacked via vulnerabilities, Apple releases info on them after they have been patched.
Also - not how many MS vulnerabilities are open in standard operation, and compare that to the supposed Apple vulnerabilities, which far more often than not, that are generally confined to features or settings that are not active by default.
Further - I challenge you - remove ALL antivirus protection from your Windows PC. Allow unfettered access to the internet. My PowerMac is on a high-speed connection 24-7 with ZERO antivirus software and zero other extra efforts to “protect” it. I am so disappointed that nothing bad has happened to my machine.
So - go ahead and gloat. That’s fine. But when you can come up with a single vulnerability that could have ANY affect on my machine - give it a whirl - send it my way....
Not disclosing vulnerabilities doesn’t mean you don’t have them.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Apple fans flame away all you want, nothing can ruin this wonderful, long time coming day for me. I feel like I am walking on the Clouds portrayed on the Windows 95 Desktop.
Um, if this brings that much joy to your life, go with it. Meanwhile, as Apple is disclosing security vulnerabilities, Windows viruses outnumber those for OS X by about 60,000 to zero.
Everyone is forgetting what is truly important!
Like I mentioned right off the bat... GAMES!
Consoles can’t compete with a P.C.
Apple can’t compete with either of them.
Yea, my vic-20 is virus-free, too.
And starts up in seconds!
So what?