“I sat down with Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer products at Symantec. He spoke very eloquently about the merits of Norton AntiVirus 2009 and how Symantec was trying desperately to change the negative image of Norton as a resource-hogging, user-bothering nuisance,” Rory Reid reports for CNET UK.
“I’ve tried his new software, and — for the most part — I agree it’s pretty good. But during our meeting, I couldn’t ignore the fact he was using an Apple MacBook Pro. For all his hyperbole about how incredibly safe Norton keeps Windows PCs, it appeared Trollope was ducking the virus threat completely — by using a Mac,” Reid reports.
“Trollope politely explained that he’d chosen a Mac because he prefers the platform’s “ease of use” and “elegance”. I’m assuming he’s referring to OS X’s spangly graphical user interface, and not the Mac’s innate ability to dodge malware,” Reid reports.
“It does make you wonder — if the guy responsible for pimping AV software prefers Macs, maybe we should too,” Reid reports.
Full article, with photo of a smiling Trollope with his Apple MacBook Pro, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill ‘Sarasota’ R.” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: There’s no “maybe” about it, Rory. Get a Mac. You can even slum it with Windows until you quickly figure out that you’d rather not boot into that mess — your father’s OS — ever again.