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Yeah, completely unfair — under Ballmer, Microsoft seriously improved their security, going from a complete disaster to actually quite solid. It clearly wasn’t
by rdl 9y ago
Yeah, completely unfair — under Ballmer, Microsoft seriously improved their security, going from a complete disaster to actually quite solid. It clearly wasn’t Ballmer’s engineering prowess which accomplished this, but resource allocation and prioritization in response to the market.
- coldtea 9y agoWell, they had a very low base point to being with. Easy to improve on that. 17+ years later, and 10000 articles about how Macs aren't really immune to viruses (duh), OS X/macOS still doesn't have any virus outbreak that wasn't actually a trojan in fact, that at worst affected only like 1% of the user base or less. Windows had actual viruses affect tons of people regularly.