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Google gives Windows the boot and opts for Mac and Linux

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Wine-Reviews; By Tom Wickline
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With Apples market share growth increasing you really dont see a lot of companies moving from Windows-based computers to Macs. Sure, you will find mixed environments, with Macs predominantly in the creative departments. But, you dont typically see a complete departure from Windows. Well, Google is making the move from Windows based computers to Macs and Linux based computers.

Google is tired of security issues with Windows, and this is what they are doing about it:

“Were not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee. “Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said another. New hires are now given the option of using Apples Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we dont feel so good about.”

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Comments (3)

Just a blogger's unsourced rehash of everyone else's rehash of the original, officially-unconfirmed FT story that we all already read 2-3 days ago.
Thanks for saving me another minute!
Which you then used to thank me. ;)

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