While I agree with you that the Mac OS isn't "the promised land" I want to point out a few things why this OS IS more secure than Windows. First, the Mac OS has most of the vulnerable TCP ports turned off by default, Microsoft defaults theirs to on when you turn it on. Second, Windows has more vulnerabilities in it because of its nature to be "helpful" to the consumer, for example look at outlook, you can make that program call up other parts of the OS and the savvy hackers can take over your system or just make it crash a lot. Apple has had one real issue with the help program running scripts, but it hasn't really had that big of an effect on the OS as a script vulnerability on Windows, there were no reported cases of harmful scripts other than that idiot who downloaded a phony pirated version of Office 2004 and got his just deserts when he tried to run the installer. He didn't notice that the whole program wasn't more than a few megabytes. Lastly, you said it yourself, you have no Macintosh focus area, why not? Is it because there is no reason to have one or is it because you aren't interested in hearing from Mac folks, either way we win.

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