[Gomez]

ping

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[TheZMan]

Interesting, but the last line is absolutely right.

[2banana]

Would not have anything to do with Google and Microsoft becoming fierce competitors in several markets...?

[The_Reader_David]

So Google is finally following my lead (^_^).

I’ve had Mac OS at home and Linux at the office for years. Finally dropped MS Office when it gave me licensing crap after I cloned my old Mac’s file structure onto my new Mac: I use Open Office instead.

Like Linus Torvald said: “I don’t object to Bill Gates being rich. I object to Bill Gates having a lousy operating system.”

[norraad]

Could be the beginning of clothes shopping for the King(Emperors New Clothes)

[OneWingedShark]

Employees need to start saying “F that, Google.”

[dayglored]

> As one commenter suggests below, this also means that malware developers may have new reason to focus their efforts on Mac OS X. Every silver lining has a cloud.

Why is that a cloud? Those of us with Unix/BSD background have been waiting a long time for an actual Mac OS-X virus -- a successful self-replicating virus would be real news! PARTY TIME!!

Still waiting, though....

[Sender]

They will of course need some Windows 7 machines to develop and test things for the sheeple. Suitably quarantined, of course.

Now what they need to do is to develop killer apps and features that only run on Linux or Mac. If you build it, they will come.

[SmokingJoe]

Didn't even know Google used Windows desktops at all. I was under the impression they were a Linux shop, given all the anti-Windows talk we've heard from Google since they started business 10 years ago.
Anyways, 20,000 Google desktops is drop in the bucket as compared to the over 100 million Win 7 units sold, in just 3 months after launch.
Google has gotta do what they think is good for them, and as do over the 90% of the world's desktop computer users who chose to use Windows.

[CORedneck]

Kind of interesting. The company I now work for, there is no love lost towards M$ but yet, we use M$ Windows on our systems. I would love to have a Mac instead or a Linux system for my work machine at the office and work at home laptop.

Funny thing, my work at home laptop is only used for work and nothing else. When I am done with wok at the end of the day, it is turned off !

[Swordmaker]

Is Google switching to Macs and Linux from Windows? PING!

Mac at Google Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Biggirl]

Well not surprised, Windows has been “hacked” so many times, it is no surprise that Google is moving its employees over to either Linux or Mac. It is an issue of Windows having a weak computer security system.

Plus Google wants to “make peace” with the Apple founder, Steve Jobs, because if my memory is correct, Mr. Jobs was upset early this year over Google and its introduction of its Android cell phone product, because it will provide direct competition to the iPhone.

[DollyCali]

interesting

[meyer]

Well, since google is tight with the ‘rats and Al Gore is on the board of directors at Apple, I guess I’ll stick with Windows. Isn’t google maps the one that was spying on peoples’ wireless use with their photography van when they were putting together that “street view” feature?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

This smells like a PR stunt. Most of the Google apps don't run on Linux or the Mac. Unix has been out longer than Windows -- if security were such an issue, how come its still being patched? Every OS has its flaws. Having computers behind a firewall hacked is a good sign of poor security management. As Mr. Peel says, the only really secure computer is the one still in its box.

Come on, Google, don't be evil.

[Tribune7]

But but but but Mac is less secure than Windows /s