YA Mac vs. PC Comparison

Security Issues Plague Windows-Based PCs, Impairing Ease of Use

Meanwhile, the company’s historic rival, Apple Computer, has been making giant strides in ease of use. The Macintosh, with its OS X operating system, is rock solid. It is elegant, and — when you do a feature-by-feature price comparison with Windows competitors — it’s surprisingly affordable.

For those who haven’t already read this article by Walt Mossberg, I recommend it, especially if you are a Windows user with any inclination of switching. In a world that’s more technologically driven every day, Walt hits on a major point here – security, or the lack thereof, in the Windows OS, how vendors have historically approached the problem in the PC world, and how the end user wastes so much time dealing with it.

Which brings up one of the things I admire about Apple. They took control of their OS early on, and set the guidelines for 3rd party developers to follow in working with it, instead of the other way around. In my opinion, that control has played a big part in the “ease of use” that we see on the Mac today. Yes, OS X has a few minor security shortcomings here and there, but they are miniscule when put into perspective of just how young OS X really is. Windows, on the other hand, has been building on the same code base for a very long time. If they were really serious about security, they would have plugged the holes already. That’s something to think about.