Google Said To Be Dumping Windows Over Security Concerns
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-06-01
One of the world's most successful technology companies will stop using Microsoft Windows due to security concerns, according to a new report. Unnamed Google employees even hinted that Windows was partly to blame for allowing Chinese hackers to carry out a successful attack.
A Googler told David Gelles and Richard Waters of the Financial Times, "We're not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort."
Another anonymous Google employee also added, "Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks." And apparently new Google employees are now just given a choice between using Macs or PCs running Linux.
Enterprise security experts shouldn't necessarily feel a need to follow in Google's footsteps, though. Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, tweeted late last night, "Google going google, okay, but free pass from FT on reason = bad reporting."
Shaw then went on to mock the Financial Times (and Google) with several more tweets, and it's hard to imagine a high-ranking Microsoft official would act this way if anyone at Google were likely to go on the record about Windows being a security problem.
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