Actually the headline was "Microsoft is Stupid, Apple is Not!" but this article at ExtremeTech could just have be called the above:
My boss Lance recently wrote a column about how Macs need security software too. In his column he pointed out that Mac users are no smarter than Windows users. I respect where Lance is coming from, we're all human and quite capable of making mistakes. However, I think he got it wrong. It's not necessarily just about the users, it's also about the companies and people who create the operating systems that we use each day.
Frankly, there's no other way to say this: Microsoft is stupid and Apple is not.
Security, Security, Security...
If you take a look at the history of OS design by each company, it's pretty clear why this is so. Microsoft has historically made an unreliable, ugly, and highly insecure operating system based on its own spaghetti/Swiss cheese code. This is no secret to anyone who has followed the industry or even used Windows on a daily basis. If you are a Windows users you MUST have spyware/virus/malware prevention software or, sooner or later, your machine is going to get nailed.
It isn't Microsoft bashing to say any of this, it's just the truth for Windows users each day of their computing lives.
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http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/...a=224291,00.aspI have Vista installed on my iMac and Macbook Pro again. I'd taken it off a while back but recently installed it using Parallels so I could have Windows available for testing, reviews, etc. I was struck how ugly it really is and how much it looks like it was designed by a committee. Instead of the simple elegance of Mac OS X, Vista looks like a Frankenstein OS...bolted together and looking more and more like a stumbling, walking corpse of an operating system.
