Well Apple's OS X is BSD based which is I believe based off of Unix, and Linux is as well.

I am sure MS will fix it.

90% of the worlds OS is MS.

us in the business world...knowz....the supporting MS... =$

The Windows operating system contains a large number of intentional back doors whose purpose is to allow Microsoft programs such as Word and Excel and Outlook to talk to each other in ways that give them an unfair advantage over the competition. For example, you can make a website that has a button saying "click here to put this into your address book" or "click here to make this your home page". Word can use Excel to make its tables. Powerpoint can use Internet Explorer to find images.

If these program-to-program communication links were aboveboard and documented, then other companies could use them, and, for example, could produce an email program to compete with Outlook or a spreadsheet program to compete with Excel. But Microsoft doesn't want to give competitors a fair chance, so all of these communication channels have to remain secret.

About 99.9% of virus and worm and black-hat tricks use one of the conduits that is in Windows on purpose. And Microsoft is kind of stuck, because if they fix the paths that are allowing the viruses, then they open the software world for competition. They therefore, as a matter of strategy, use PR instead of engineering to solve the problem. And they ask you to buy even more software from them to help keep the malware under control.

Apple, by contrast, is not a software monopoly and doesn't want to be. So there are no intentional back doors in Macintosh systems. There will always be the occasional programming mistake, but (a) they are rare, and (b) they can be fixed quickly without endangering Apple's corporate strategy.

Apple is no saint: they lock customers in with hardware. Their software, which is quite wonderful, runs only on their hardware. And they basically make all of their profit on their hardware.

But Apple's corporate strategy does not require them to have back doors through which viruses can get in, while Microsoft's does. This is why Apple systems will always be vastly more hacker-resistant than Microsoft systems.

xp is not a bad os

it makes difficult tasks very easy with just a double click

baring in mind that linux is not the friendliest of os's for beginners

macs lack the software support

windows beats them through good marketing

windows will always come out on top

but look what its done for the ram memory industry

Call Apple Care. They have wonderful support, unlike Microsoft.

lets not forget thier vast knowledge base and newsgroups

leaving her and other clients SOL

There are several ways to secure an XP machine through AD and the use of limited profiles.

This is obviously the old tired MS bashing.

90% of the worlds OS is MS

There has never in history been a more vulnerable operating system, ever. These vulnerabilities are built in and can and will never be removed for reasons explained above

I put Linux on a laptop for my 8 year old to use in school. She didn't even notice for 3 months that it wasn't windows. It looks like windows, it acts like windows, the programs just have different names. If you are locked into the mindset of what windoes is supposed to look and act like exactly, then you'll probably notice, but it's close enough an 8 year old can hit the ground running

Call Apple Care. They have wonderful support, unlike Microsoft

Maybe, but wouldn't it make more sense to use an OS that didn't need this stuff?

windows has over 40,ooo viruses written for it, linux has 5