Microsoft and Google may not be the best of friends, but the fact remains that there are still a lot of Windows-exclusive application that forces companies to remain with Windows no matter if they like or not. Google has developed more than a few applications and services, and offers them for free, that competes with Microsoft’s products. Hence they are not good friends.

It looks like Google is taking things even further. It will drop the Windows operating system for all employees. Employees have been given the choice of OS X or Linux. Most seems to have chosen OS X, but either way security should improve substantially. Windows is the most targeted system for viruses, trojans and hacker attacks. 

Employees can get a Windows PC or Windows installed if they get a special clearance. 

Is this really all about security? I bet not. Google saw a chance of kicking Microsoft while it was down and took it. Windows machines were the target during the 2009 December hacker attack and since then Google has been replacing systems. An updated Windows should be pretty safe, but this may not have been the case back then.

Rumor goes they were not up to date, they even used Internet Explorer 6 and were exploited using a trojan spread through e-mail. One might even go so far as thinking Google is using the hack attack as a scape goat for throwing out Windows…

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