Consider Microsoft’s plight. Hundreds of millions of customers, ranging from home users to the enterprise, bypassed Windows Vista and chose to stick with XP. Worse, many of them actually downgraded computers equipped with Vista, because they didn’t want to deal with its problems, real or imagined. Without having the exact figures on hand, I think […]

The security companies are encouraged. Windows users are hoping someone else will feel the pain, but in the end it seems the latest Mac virus threat is just another non-starter. Just the other day, Symantec delivered the news of still another one of those “proof of concept” viruses that seem to make headlines, but never […]