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Jeff Campbell
06-02-2010, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.maclife.com/article/news/google_ditches_windows_favor_mac_over_security_issues' target='_blank'>http://www.maclife.com/article/news...security_issues</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"It may not be a love-fest between Google and Apple these days, but internally at least, the search giant is showing Cupertino some love by phasing out Windows-based systems and replacing them with Macs."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1273073174.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>This was based on a <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html" target="_blank">Financial Times story</a>, that gained info from a Google memo outlining the reason for the change was for security reasons. As a side note, they also mentioned that Google is working towards running everything on their own software and that it might be the first step in going full scale into their <a href="http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os" target="_blank">Chrome OS</a>.&nbsp;</p>

doogald
06-04-2010, 02:06 PM
You'd think that a hardened Windows PC running Chrome as the default browser would be ok, but I guess I understand the reaction, after being hacked.