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Story: Windows XP Intel Mac installation method confirmed

Posted by: Doug (Monday 20 March 2006, 11:52 AM)

Regarding...

"Why would anyone want to downgrade a MAC by putting windoze on it? You are just increasing your chances of virus's, infections, spyware, trojans, and adware. A better option would be to replace windows with OSX."

Someone obviously didn't read the recent news story about OSX being easily hacked within an hour. It will be interesting to see what happens across the board, as if WinXP proves to be the more secure OS during the increase in market share then OSX could struggle for popularity amongst former PC users.

OK, Windows is far from perfect, but MS have a lot more experience in dealing with software threats purely through the risk not previously being there for Mac owners. Once Macs become legitimate targets through increasing use in the corporate environment, that situation could change very rapidly, putting OSX in the spotlight and letting the worlds IT media have a go.

OK, Apple have years of MS cock-ups to learn from, but if the worlds hackers turn their attention to all things 'Apple', and it's not handled well, Microsoft could emerge as the surprise saviour of the Intel-powered Mac.

Maybe it's time for another competition, to compare the 2 OS like for like against common threats and see which one holds up the best when it comes to security.

I'll put $100 in the pot (I have a PC and 2 Macs)... but not the experience to do this.

Any takers?