04/17/2006, 1:55pm, EDT
Monday, April 17th
Apple may offer most secure Vista PC
"If Apple's intent is to do virtualization, then why bother with this dual boot version of Boot Camp? My best guess is to throw off Microsoft until it is too late. Not that I think Microsoft will even care as long as they get their money, but Apple can be sneaky this way," Cringely wrote.
Apple can offer the most secure version of Vista available with the lowest total cost of ownership, according to the columnist. Malicious users would have to work their way through Mac OS X's security before getting at Windows, and running Windows Vista from a read-only partition will allow users to wipe the OS and applications clean quickly and easily to rid their Windows installation of malware.
"By running Windows Vista this way, Apple can offer the most secure version of Vista available with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership, which could lead to a leadership change in business computing. Down with Dell and HP and up with Apple," Cringely wrote.
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I was busting up laughing at this one... this reminds me of the hilarious statements made by Tarik Aziz, the Iraqi Minister of Information in the last days of the Saddam regime, along the lines of, "our soldiers will walk on the skulls of our defeated enemies" or something... Obviously, these statements were made by engineers in the OS division of MS, and not the MBU, as they are completely ignorant of the dynamics of computer use among Mac users. Obviously, no self-respecting Mac user is going to wipe OS X from their shiny new Mac and install Windows...
a sale is a sale, afterall.. apple's a hardware company at heart. ipod proved that, they just so happen to crank out half-hearted decent software on occasion to match and hinder or enhance their hardware.
Don't forget Mac OS was the worlds first GUI. If it wasn't for apple's software you wouldn't even have a mouse.