Google ditches Windows on security concerns

I'm not surprised. IMO the only reason why Windows is so prevalent in the work place is that IT Procurement departments think that no-one ever got fired for buying Microsoft. Good to see that Google is finally challenging that paradigm and choosing other OSes it feels are more appropriate to its business.
 
thing is, google making out how unsecure windows is so that people switch to google os when it's release is silly as this shows ms what they need to do to keep customers. if google are going to focus on how unsecure it is, then ms just need to really plug its new security more and more, just as they started plugging how simple win7 is because of the new thread from macs.

seems like a silly marketing ploy if it is one as those who are likely to switch over to google os when it's released will see straight this, as has been proved by this thread. imo it's a clever way to distract people from the streetview issue.
 
xJcBx said:
So why use it when you have the option not to?

Google don't play games, and obviously can see past 1 or 2 pieces of software that aren't designed for it.

I am a Mac fanboy, but I understand the concept that it isn't some sort of godly OS which nothing can attack, but the real reasons are that there are more users. And that the user base is more people that don't fully understand a computer, and Mac have less so (not you guys.. Well not most of you).

However, it does make me think, if such a massive company like Google are using OSX and Mac, they don't just do things willy-nilly, and have done much testing and research into making this huge move, costing millions in man hours and money.

Not a marketing ploy.
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No doubt Google are now number1 in the mobile OS market, I am sure some of this code for this OS will be used in Android or Chrome meaning it isn't totally marketing.

What annoys me is that the article specifically targets MS while in reality it is only a victim of it's own success, although perhaps somewhat deserved for having such a monopoly. but it would still happen to any company with such a market share.

Google aren't perfect, with their privacy issues and this streetview wifi thing but what are the options, Apple with its totalitarian ways or MS with its imperfections and both massive price tag.

Mobile OS and the Internet are constantly more and more important, overall Google will be the number 1 tech company for a while yet. But they do need to work on Chrome a lot. They have done it with Android but beating MS will be much tougher.
 
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platypus said:
A nonsense article to get the heat off their illegal activities over streetview. I hope the Germans rinse them through the courts.

They could certainly use the € levied from huge fines.
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The timing of this article is a bit strange with the German activities. Nothing you surprise me. The EU will end up fining them just like MS.
 
seems like a load of hog wash. I dont think google will get rid of thousadns of pounds of equipment etc. Google were hacked because they didnt update IE and many other things so its really their mistake.
 
starfighter said:
No doubt Google are now number1 in the mobile OS market.
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No, they're not.

Google in obvious stupid marketing ploy shocker. Wow, you guys are switching to an OS that's just as insecure if not more so because MS are teh devil!!!111!! and coincidently one of your largest competitors? Go you.

I'll just carry on with my business using my Windows 7 computer that's never had a virus, never had spyware, never crashed and runs all my fun games whilst being just as productive as any other OS... because I'm not a moron.

Basically Google are just saying that their employees are incapable of using computers/software/systems correctly and securely with this move.
 
Google ditching Windows due to security concerns?

Google are (allegedly) phasing out Windows due to security concerns and pushing staff to use… wait for it… OSX and Linux!

"We're not doing any more Windows," one Google employee told the FT. "It's a security effort." Another said staff had been "moved away from Windows PCs. following the China hacking attacks".
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Hmm, newsflash, it's always been a security effort. To my knowledge the attack exploited IE6 (yes, IE6) on Windows XP without DEP enabled. Surely it's more effort to migrate to and support both OSX and Linux than to keep Windows desktops up to date? Who knows, but the security argument looks a bit thin to me especially considering the hacks mentioned were highly, highly targeted.

Google, which employees around 10,000 people worldwide, is already encouraging new joiners to opt for Linux or OS X. "Linux is open source and we feel good about it," another member of staff told the FT. "Microsoft, we don't feel so good about."
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Is this a preamble to a ChromeOS announcement in the next couple of weeks?

To me, on the outside looking in, it would make more sense to wait until ChromeOS was mature enough for the desktop and go with that, but since it is overwhelmingly designed for netbook-type devices maybe a desktop version is years away and they can't wait.

Anyway, as far as I can tell it has not been confirmed and I seem to recall Google employees speaking out about stuff in the past that has not been 100% accurate.

Google has not commented specifically on the rumours. "We're always working to improve the efficiency of our business, but we do not comment on specific operational matters," said the company in a statement.
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I'd have been more interested if they chose to go with ChromeOS or at least a custom version of Linux. I'm looking forward to see where ChromeOS goes and using it in-house would have been a big endorsement. Having said that, a company as big as Google moving to OSX/Linux would no doubt raise the eyebrows of other companies considering the switch - particularly to Linux.

So what do we think? Long overdue? Swapping one problem for another? Obviously it is just hypothetical - I don't know the first thing about Google IT.

What would you choose, OSX or Linux if your employer banned Windows? (I'd choose OSX obviously - shiny new Mac!) :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ns-Microsoft-Windows-on-office-computers.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html

Edit - apologies for duplicate thread - I did search honest, just didn't see!
 
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Captain_Slick said:
No, they're not.

Google in obvious stupid marketing ploy shocker. Wow, you guys are switching to an OS that's just as insecure if not more so because MS are teh devil!!!111!! and coincidently one of your largest competitors? Go you.

I'll just carry on with my business using my Windows 7 computer that's never had a virus, never had spyware, never crashed and runs all my fun games whilst being just as productive as any other OS... because I'm not a moron.

Basically Google are just saying that their employees are incapable of using computers/software/systems correctly and securely with this move.
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For a start, Google and Apple aren't exactly best friends either. Also, your machine probably isn't being attacked by the chinese state.
 
Strife212 said:
For a start, Google and Apple aren't exactly best friends either. Also, your machine probably isn't being attacked by the chinese state.
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The enemy of your enemy is your friend. MS are a bigger threat to Google than Apple.

No, it isn't, but Google switching to OS X isn't going to stop those pesky chinese. It's like crashing your car and buying a motorbike as the solution.
 
I heard that serious techies prefer macs i.e. the google employees etc..

and the mac 'fanboy' bashing tends to come from printer monkeys/sysadmins etc.. who've done some Microsoft certs and basically windows is all they really know.

Also highlighted by the fact that lots of the mac bashing revolves around cost - IT printermonkeys on low wages do really worry about dropping a few hundred more on a laptop as they don't have much disposable income.





{actually I'm just trolling due to boredom}
 
Superewza said:
Google mainly used Linux anyway didn't they? Why switch to OSX?
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Apple computers and thus OS X are used a lot by Google employees. In fact you get the choice of having a Mac when you start your job.

Spunkey said:
Why? Why would you do that? It's like curing brain cancer by cutting your brain in half.
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You do know that behind the user interface of OS X is a core based on UNIX (BSD in fact)? It's more like supercharging your brain than being lobotomised!
 
I think its a Marketing ploy although im not sure why they are moving to OSX. I can imagine all the Slogans now.

Google O/S So good we use OSX.
 
If I had to choose between OS X and a labotomy, it'd be a no-brainer.

(sorry, couldn't resist that one! ;))
 
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