Windows: Unsafe at any speed, part deux

29.10.2008

On the other hand, using Microsoft products is a lot like eating a microwaved burrito. It probably won't kill you, but you don't hear many people boasting about how great it tastes. Certainly not in Cringeville, where the Mac OS and various flavors of Linux own the hearts and minds of most.

Commenter Sean rejects the convenience store metaphor for fast food:

Macs and 'nix are more secure, shown time and again. Not perfect, but better. Why isn't it a news story? For the same reason that the news doesn't report other non-news. When's the last time you saw a documentary on the guy who's 80 years old and living a quiet life eating a balanced diet? Never. But turn on Discovery Health and you'll see the special on the 28 year old, 400-lb guy that subsists on fried food and McDonalds.

Would you like to supersize the fries with your Windows Vista Ultimate Business Edition? How about a big tub of Coke?

Like many Cringesters who found me via , D. D. is all Mac all the time: