“Frankly, there’s no other way to say this: Microsoft is stupid and Apple is not,” Jim Lynch writes for ExtremeTech.
“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,” Lynch writes.
“It isn’t Microsoft bashing to say any of this, it’s just the truth for Windows users each day of their computing lives,” Lynch writes. “Apple, on the other hand, decided long ago to ditch their old operating system and build one that was Unix based. Why did this matter? Well as people have begun to notice, thanks to its Unix roots, Mac OS X is a hell of a lot more stable and secure than any version of Windows ever released. Apple didn’t make this choice by chance, they thought it through and knew exactly what they were doing and why.”
Lynch writes, “Mac users simply don’t live in the same inherently insecure and fearful universe that Microsoft, through its stupidity and bad programming, has inflicted on Windows users. The difference is night and day, and anyone who has ever switched from Windows over to Mac OS X (or Linux for that matter) knows how liberating it is once you realize that are free and safe from debilitating viruses, spyware, and malware that plague the Windows operating system.”
Lynch writes, “Microsoft is stupid and will never get security right, Apple already has… Smart computer users are abandoning Microsoft in droves and embracing Mac OS X and/or Linux.”
“And, thanks to Apple’s skill at elegant design, Mac OS X is also much easier on the eyes and far more intuitive than Windows 2000, XP, or even the deeply flawed Windows Vista (which was supposed to be Microsoft’s best shot at catching up to Mac OS X). All Microsoft had to do, in terms of design, was to copy Mac OS X, but they couldn’t even do that right. So they ended up with an ugly imitation of Mac OS X Tiger and then promptly fell even further behind after Apple released Mac OS X Leopard,” Lynch writes. “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… [It’s] a second-rate clone of Mac OS X…”
Much, much more in the full article here.
@crash
You would think that the user base with 5-8% of unprotected Mac OS X users is already big enough to attract virus and trojan authors. Big infected base for spreading the crap.
And yet, there’s not ONE virus in the wild (!) right now… Just proof-of-concepts that require a stupid user (or local access).
@ all the people saying “Oh yeah MSFT is stupid – they just own the whole world, nub.”
1. you have no idea how business works. You can only rest on your laurels for so long
2. think of all the people that will lose their jobs if msft doesn’t pull its head in and things go pear shaped for them
3. market share is – frankly – irrelevant to contributing something worthwhile to the ongoing evolution of technology. That might sound like liberal stuff, but I think Apple has changed the playing field with their attention to detail. People ARE starting to wake up to the fact that they want their tech experience to be seemless and invisible. That don’t want to have to stuff around with something to get it to work… they just want it to WORK. And msft doesn’t get it. It is for msft’s own benefit to listen hard to articles like this one
mw: faith
@ hs No really you dont get it. Msft is getting it. They do listen. Apple is the one with its head in the sand. Thinking they are all that and Sunday dinner too. Man they cant even allow for user experience to be expressed truthfully, they find a thread not to their liking and they make it go away. Kinda of like ummm der Fuerher Steve Jobs. Man he reminds me of when in the fourth grade the rich kid didnt like the outcome of the soccor game he grabbed his ball, called all of us stupid and went home.
If you go back to Bills earliest days he expressed his drive to get technology in the hands of all, make it simple in design, ease of use, and smooth in integraton of everything. Whether that be at home, at the office, on a plane or train.
And look at what is coming about.
Oh thats right you fanbois got your heads up your…. I mean in the sand just like the rest of that one hit wonder of a company.
@elgarak
Man cant you fanbois Google http://www.scmagazineus.com/Second-Mac-virus-in-the-wild/article/32987/ or maybe this http://www.pctechtalk.com/index.php?m=show&id=4473
Now go running back to der Fuerher and complain that I said a bad thing about his OS…
Man you fanbois are too easy to rile
“You would think that the user base with 5-8% of unprotected Mac OS X users is already big enough to attract virus and trojan authors.”
Mmm I’m writing a virus what should I write it for. GEM for Atari ST, a good option but not many people use it anymore, maybe Mac OSX now that’s got 5% of the market, wow. Now lets look at windows 90 % of the market, I think I’ll go for that.
That’s how all of them think. The only reason you get any viruses on the Mac is because some people really really really hate Mac fanboys
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You really do not need to read any further than the first paragraph in this article.
‘Nuff said.
I say to Micros$oft via Billy Joel’s song:
“I love you just the way you are.”
Because I’m on a Mac, and as long as M$ doesn’t go changing, Apple’s user % goes up, and my stock goes up. Thank you for making me thousands $$ Microsoft! : )
“Don’t go changing………….”
And yet still some 95% of customers prefer Microsoft Windows powered PCs to Macs.
Lets see, be stupid and get 95% of the worldwide market or be smart and get 3%. At least as far as ability to make good business decisions it seems your definitions of smart and stupid are are screwed up.
Its only in Mac Fanboy World that the demise of Microsoft is imminent.
@Crash,
Those were cool links. I’m surprised they’re still around they’re so old. And I’m surprised Macs across the world haven’t succummed to them – especially after Sophos says “the good news is that Inqtana is not going to spread successfully in the wild” (Apple released a patch against the vulnerability in mid 2005).
Isn’t spreading in the wild the purpose of most viruses?
Please come back and tell us when the first expoit that can take over a Mac without the user giving permission is causing damage beyond a proof-of-concept lab.
@ crasch: “If you go back to Bills earliest days he expressed his drive to get technology in the hands of all, make it simple in design, ease of use, and smooth in integraton of everything. Whether that be at home, at the office, on a plane or train.”
Too bad he still hasn’t achieved his drive and probably won’t even in his old days.
@me: “Mmm I’m writing a virus what should I write it for. GEM for Atari ST, a good option but not many people use it anymore, maybe Mac OSX now that’s got 5% of the market, wow. Now lets look at windows 90 % of the market, I think I’ll go for that.”
Or maybe, if I’m able, write two seperate viruses and get 95% of the market. You’d think the challenge of creating the first wide-spread havoc-wreaking virus for OSX would be appealing. Isn’t that how they think as well?
@Johnsson
No Bills dream is not realized, never will be. By its very essence that dream will be a never ending drive to aspire to something more integrated, smoother in implementation, ease of use and generally superior to the last generation of software and hardware. I expect this type of comment from you folks though.
Your statements indicate a strong need to believe your products are there and everyone is not. Typical Apple fanbois.
You guys dont realize that integration is not just a PC, MP3 player and a (hobby) tv tuner. Look at the Sync for Ford, look to the search, advertising software. Look at the virtualization going on now with Msft. At the 2008 did you notice the touch demonstration, that technology is going to go far with Universities, pub schools, librairies, and just about any reatil sales position that is foward thinking in presenting product to the consumer. Think about sitting down at a bar a ordering drinks, appt and meal just with a touch interface built into the table.
Keep trying Apple you might just get it.
“Or maybe, if I’m able, write two seperate viruses and get 95% of the market. You’d think the challenge of creating the first wide-spread havoc-wreaking virus for OSX would be appealing. Isn’t that how they think as well?”
Only the ones that really hate Apple, the vast majority only think about how many credit card numbers they can steal.
@ Crash: “Google the internet on Mac DOS, or trojan or vulnerabilities you will find them.”
Exactly, that’s the only way you’ll find them.
The reason people get viruses on windows and not mac is mainly because nobody cares about writing viruses for macs. Why attack 10% of the market at once when you can attack 90%?
I haven’t even gotten 1 single trace of malware in the past 2 years. Even if I get problems, they are easily fixed imo.
Vista fails because it was a frantic rush of an incomplete OS. Yes, it does hog memory, but that’s because of its backwards compatability, searching index, and secretive hotfix installer.
Oh, and it’s not like Macs don’t crash either… I used a few new macs for college and boy did they give me hell with Photoshop and Illustrator… 🙁 And those damn standard one-button mice… I wish they’d just switch to multi-button mice like the rest of the world..