“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,” Winn Schwartau writes for Network World. “But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Schwartau writes, “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.”
Schwartau writes, “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% of humanity who merely want a computer for e-mail and multimedia… my company has given up on WinTel. We have successfully moved to Mac in less than two days. Think about it: a security-friendly alternative that works and doesn’t require gobs of third-party utilities to safely perform the most mundane tasks. Please follow the details of our experiment at securityawareness.blogspot.com. It’s already way more interesting than I thought it would be.”
Full article here.
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Don’t you just love this stuff? Don’t you just love your Mac?
Cool. I am going to follow this blog very closely.
Once all the intelligent folks in the wolrd have switched to Mac, perhaps the ‘salesmen’ in BestBuy and PCWorld might just follow bringing in the masses!
Apple’s strapline should be “Intelligent Computing.”
Another company finally sees the light. It’s nice to hear about not just one person but a whole company switching and relizing that there is something wrong when you have to devote so much time to security versus your own work.
Hmm. Time to buy some more AAPL.
Why is he capitalizing the “T” in “Wintel”?
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Mac Jack-
Windows = Win
Intel = Tel
so…Win+Tel
Also used:
WinHell
WinSmell
WinFell (Blue screen)
WinDell (the crappy Marketshare company)
Fast forward to the future folks…
Apple Computer, which controls the entire OS, Hardware, software and infrastructure of more than 95% of all personal computers operating in the world was indighted today on charges of Monopolistic business practices. Federal Judges are seeking to dismantle the company by dividing each department into separate business units.
… it could happen folks. Careful what you wish for.
You think Microsoft doesn’t control the handful of PC manufacturers left?
Puhleez.
They do what Microsoft wants them to do. Try ordering Linux from Dell one of these days. Try ordering anything that ISN’T Windows from Dell one of these days. And I’m not talking about their server offerings.
We have successfully moved to Mac in less than two days.
So easy, eh? What took you so long … stupidity?
An experiment predicated upon an hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become, indeed, a national economic security risk.
I said it a long time ago: Gates and Ballmer ought to be sued for billions then slapped into jail.
Boy, You Mac Heads really are fsck wads
These people are going to have more time on their hands then they know what to do with now that they’re not battling security issues. That was the first thing that I noticed when I switched. No more dicking around with this and that…and no more fustration. Free at last, free at last!
Anothe wintel user who is in the “ditch” with his sucky platform. Hehe. Get help. Get a Mac.
I do love my Mac mini. He has been a good boy. What a great operating system. I just ordered him a clear plastic garage.
mrw0lf:
“Windows = Win
Intel = Tel
so…Win+Tel”
Yeah, we know what it *means*, but still–why is the T capitalized?
My point exactly. You’d only cap the “T” if the second word started with it.
Thurrott mentioned this story on his Internet Nexus site.. he concedes a few points and for some of the points (RAM quality, etc) Thurrott unknowingly plays into Apple’s hand.. by saying ‘not MS’s problem’.. an open architecture is cool, but without some overseeing body, you will find a store full of crappy parts made cheap.. where ‘quality’ is impossible to determine at the point of sale. So quality parts is not a profitable model.. as a result you get crappy monitors, cheap parts, cobbled together in a box where the software can’t understand any of the hardware.. users have to work hard to download drivers etc. and the whole thing is a generally painful experience..
but at least Bill Gates ‘won’..