Recently the news broke that Google would force its employees to stop using Windows due to security concerns. Instead of Windows, Google is reported to offer workers the choice between Macs running Apple's Mac OS X and Linux PCs. Unsurprisingly, some analysts scoffed at the security excuse.
"There must be reasons other than security for such a move," said John Pescatore, a Gartner analyst who specializes in security issues. "As an academic exercise, yes, the 'security by obscurity' model works," he said, referring to the concept that users are safer running Mac OS X and Linux because they have a much smaller market share than Windows, thus offering hackers a less attractive target.
Other analysts, on the other hand, believe that it is a strategic decision. The two companies are locked in simultaneous battles on everything from search, where Google is the dominant player, to business productivity software, where Microsoft dominates. "Google has its own browser, its own [application] software, and its own OS," Gartenberg said.
"Chrome OS is very early in development for you to use [on production PCs]," Gartenberg said. So there is Linux or Mac OS. But given the tensions between Google and Apple, how long can Mac last there? " Google and Apple have annoyed each other badly about mobile devices, especially mobile devices. smartphones, where Google's Android operating system is challenging Apple's iPhone.
"I'm willing to bet that Apple won't end up on Google's desktops," echoed Ezra Gottheil, an analyst who follows both companies for Technology Business Research. This would mean that Linux has enormous potential to become the system of choice for Google employees.
Now, Google's decision to stop using Windows may have several causes and may not be merely due to a security issue. Basically, I believe that three can be rescued: the strategic decision to start using their own products and for their employees to become familiar with them, discredit the competition and improve the security of their systems, in view of the fact that Google is putting all the chips to the cloud development (that is, the offer of online applications and storage spaces for the data and files of users from all over the world), with which they cannot allow future attacks by hackers, as happened in the last episode originated in China, break down its defense systems, expose the enormous amount of data stored on its servers and, above all, seriously affect Google's image and destroy the feeling that it is an "invincible giant." Because, let's be honest, who would trust having Gmail or using Google Docs if their security is likely to be easily breached? THE ENTIRE cloud is based purely on trust (confidence that they won't do "bad" things with my data, that they will protect it from "bad" hackers, etc.).
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Exact! That is exactly what I meant ...
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I was actually surprised to learn that it was not, given Google's alienation and Linux's strategic position for all of its operations and businesses.
I give myself more for the SECURITY excuse, who has not got a virus of any kind, be it a Trojan or a network worm, also the Hackers' excuse is totally unreasonable in principle because Linux is the creation of hackers and how It is well known that hackers help greatly with the development, notification and resolution of bugs, and not forgetting applications for Linux, but if mac does not save itself from viruses, I know that in Linux there are them but someone has ever had ubuntu hacked or discovered virus?
It is logical that Google's strategy is to remove from its company a rival that has given strong to its pocket and has criticized it in terms of security (Microsoft has always pointed to Chrome as insecure).
Will there be Apple on most Google desktops? I don't think so, mainly because of the friction in recent times between Cupertino and the use of h.264 and Google with its new set to VP8 and WebM. In addition, Android is still Apple's headache regarding its inefficient iPhone.
So I think google will use various linux distributions, until their CromeOS is mature.