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Long time Windows developer gets a Mac
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<blockquote data-quote="WolfsBane" data-source="post: 596328" data-attributes="member: 44074"><p>XP is a decent OS. When it originally came out, the biggest issue was in either obtaining or modifying device drivers for all the devices that we used, specially in a work type network environment with lots of applications and supporting hardware. But once those rolled out, the OS itself was pretty good. The other issue with Windows is that it lends itself open to penetration by malware because of the way that some of it's components are written. They developed certain components to allow universal programing access, and then they had to go back and develop security updates to disable those functionalities because they were being used as a means to load malicious coding into our systems. That's the way it goes...</p><p></p><p>Being a fundamentally native multi user type platform, Mac OS X has within it the means to tell an experienced user with system level access when he or she is about to access or install something that is critical in nature. I think that as long as you are careful and don't bypass the intended parameters, that you should be ok with just your administrative account and access.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WolfsBane, post: 596328, member: 44074"] XP is a decent OS. When it originally came out, the biggest issue was in either obtaining or modifying device drivers for all the devices that we used, specially in a work type network environment with lots of applications and supporting hardware. But once those rolled out, the OS itself was pretty good. The other issue with Windows is that it lends itself open to penetration by malware because of the way that some of it's components are written. They developed certain components to allow universal programing access, and then they had to go back and develop security updates to disable those functionalities because they were being used as a means to load malicious coding into our systems. That's the way it goes... Being a fundamentally native multi user type platform, Mac OS X has within it the means to tell an experienced user with system level access when he or she is about to access or install something that is critical in nature. I think that as long as you are careful and don't bypass the intended parameters, that you should be ok with just your administrative account and access. [/QUOTE]
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