Another rhetoric from the "Mac is great, Windows sucks" school of thought. This time about security. Courtesy of MyAppleMenu. Briefly, the author uses the 'broken windows' theory of urban decay to explain why there are so many security issues with Windows as an operating system, but Mac remains unscathed in the midst of it all.

Personally, I think that (1) this guy is your classic Mac geek-snob, and (2)though some of his ideas make sense, he was being unfair when he said that "Windows is like a bad neighborhood, strewn with litter, mysterious odors, panhandlers, and untold dozens of petty annoyances".

Come on. The average Windows user is probably less of a geek than your average Mac user. To the average Windows PC user, the computer is just a tool to surf the Net, play some games, and to play multimedia files for entertainment. How many Windows users do you know who eats, lives and breathes computers? On the other hand, how many Mac users you know are like that? Probably all of them. To use the 'broken windows' parable, the Windows neighbourhood probably doesn't care much about broken windows. It's a non-issue for them. Let the Mac geeks bother about their windows, we've got better things to do.

That aside, I do agree that security is a big issue, and that it's high time people understand how much it could affect them. True enough, loss of data/intrusion on surfing privacy might not be that much of a hindrance for someone who does not speak Geek. Still, it is rather annoying when you're trying to surf the Net for some information and your PC keeps shutting down on you. Come on, people, let's bring down our tolerance level before the Mac geeks crack their ribs laughing at us.

Disclaimer: I am not a "Windows apologist", which is the term the above-mentioned author has used rather pointedly in his discussion. I am just your average Windows user who has a lower tolerance level for petty annoyances.