Just because MS opens a store, doesn’t mean that they are going to stop making / supporting your precious APPLE machines. So unruffle those panties and stop sobbing, you guys are like a bunch of kindergartners with this thread.
I would just like to add my two cents to stir this madness!~!!!

Your list of “10 worst” are all in the distant past, by standards of software. Give me a more recent example. If Apple had that market share back then, they would have been hit just as hard.

… and don’t tell me about Conficker. I know. Microsoft patched a vulnerability in October 2008, and Conficker appeared in November 2008, reverse-engineered from the patch out of Microsoft. Only idiots who don’t patch (i.e. they changed the default settings) were affected.

By your logic, my machine should be crawling with worms and spewing SPAM emails. But, it’s not, and never was.

@Vanni: I accept your challenge for TWO (2) sources that agree with me. Here they are:

1. Look up Charlie Miller. Here’ a good quote: “I’ve spent a lot of my research time on Macs because I like them and they also happen to be pretty easy to break!”

2. Macworld, just over a year ago, 10/8/2008: http://www.macworld.com/article/135978/mac_security.html
“Technically, Macs are not inherently more secure than Windows PCs—and by some measures, they are definitely less so. Over the past five years, Microsoft has made huge security improvements to Windows, and Apple now lags behind Microsoft in implementing library randomization, data execution protection, and other advanced security features.”

I feel like I’m fighting the tide with a spoon: To quote Joseph Goebbels (Nazi propoganda minister) “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Read the rest of the quote and substitute “Apple Inc.” for “the State” and you’ve got the picture.

I’m totally done with this thread. If you guys can’t learn by now, you never will.

“Windows XP SP2 was when Microsoft overtook Mac OSX in security, and Microsoft is way ahead of Apple now.”

find me two sources who would even mildly agree with that statement.

Windows XP SP2 was when Microsoft overtook Mac OSX in security, and Microsoft is way ahead of Apple now.

Apple has the advantage of small market share, but that’s not a kind of security. If Apple suddenly were to go to 50% market share, blackhats would be all over Apple.

Apple is starting to gear up its security though. In Snow Leopard there is a new technology that cross references files downloaded from the internet with a known vulnerability list but as it is new there are only two definitions on the list. If Microsoft did something as simple as that in 1997 when Microsoft’s malware was roughly on par with what Apple has now Microsoft would have been prepared for the barrage of viruses, spyware and general malware released throughout this decade. Frankly by the time Microsoft started doing something even close it was early 2004 when Microsoft bought a spyware detector and removal tool from another company, released it as a free beta and then went on to not develop it further for a couple of years. If Apple keeps on track with their current plans Mac OS will continue to have less attackers and less holes in their code to attack.

Sure Microsoft is serious about security now but that is like being serious about fixing your boat after it has been sinking for 2 hours.

2. Have you heard Microsoft’s pitches before. Half of those are exaggerations too. Sure Macs can get malware but compared to what’s available for Windows it is nothing.

3. Yeah license their OS. That will not end badly. Do you even remember the 90′s? Well perhaps you do as many people forgot Apple existed until the iMac came out. In case you don’t remember licensing Mac OS nearly killed Apple and made them have to turn to Microsoft for help. The days of OS licensing is one of the darkest days of Apple’s history and even if things could be different now (they wouldn’t) Apple will never do that again.

i work 8-10hrs a day on a mac. have been doing so for over tens years. nada a malware or virus have i seen. ;-)

SEE:
By this definition, there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of Windows viruses (see partial list), a handful of Mac OS 9 viruses, and not one for Mac OS X.

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/09/02/why-are-there-no-mac-viruses/

but who knows maybe in the future one will happen….

I only spent two minutes digging. With more time I could find more.

Now, I expect to hear all sorts of whining and excuses from the Mac faithful…

May we have the source for this? Please provide us with the particular Malware you are referring to?

Oh, yes, Apple is based on a Unix! Yes, that makes it more secure than Windows 98. Granted.

Mac religion is unbecoming to otherwise intelligent people.

1. Get serious about security. Apple is years behind the curve.

2. Stop hurting consumers by lying to them, about how secure Apple machines supposedly are. This makes consumer complacent, and vulnerable to the malware that is out there now.

3. License their OS to 3rd-party computer manufacturers. That would give consumers choices that they don’t have now – but it would be the death of Apple as we know it. They’re a hardware company more than a software company.