“Winn Schwartau switched his office from PCs to Macintosh computers, a seemingly simple move that created an overwhelming reaction in the online world,” Dave Gussow reports for The St. Petersburg Times (Florida, USA). “Schwartau is no mere computer user. He’s a nationally known technology security expert from Seminole, so when he wrote in his online blog that he was tired of unreliable technology and fending off virus and spyware threats to his office PC he triggered a torrent of attention.”
Gussow reports, “In a column titled ‘Mad as Hell,’ posted Monday at the Network World Web site and his blog (securityawareness.blogspot.com) on Wednesday, Schwartau declared that systems using Microsoft’s Windows software and Intel processors are ‘a threat to the national economic security of any organization or nation-state that relies (upon) it… I know how to do all this stuff. The point is I don’t want to do it and I don’t think 98 percent of the computing public should have to do it.'”
The Macintosh community, always on the lookout for good news about Apple Computer and its products, started a flood of reaction. Schwartau’s blog tracked 9,000 visitors Wednesday, 40,000 Thursday and 12,000 by midafternoon Friday. In a month, it usually gets 4,000 visitors.”
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MacDailyNews Take: More people use Macintosh than most people realize. Windows does not account for 98 percent of personal computer users. About 8-12 percent of people use Macs. Please see related stories below for more information about this misconception.
[UPDATE: 10:38am EDT: revised “98 percent” sentence in MDN Take.]
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