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After the attacks of recent months, the Mountain View company would gradually divesting the internal use of the Microsoft operating system. The favorites are Mac OS and Linux JUSTIN Toniutti

Maneuvers began in January, after the attacks
Google suffered by Chinese hackers. For questions of
Security, Google has decided to dispose of the operating system
Windows computer from its ten thousand employees to switch
all'OsX from Apple. Clearly, the Mountain View company
considers the architecture of Mac Unix computers less penetrable
that of the Microsoft operating system. Mac OS is not the only
substitute for Windows, says an employee, but certainly one that
will be more used to Linux next. A change
era for a company like Google, which will replace
the "computer park" of thousands of workers, those not forming
accustomed to Linux or MacOS and declare that, although not
publicly, that can not rely on Microsoft products for
As regards security.

A source inside the company revealed to the Financial Times
that all new employees are given the choice between the environment
Mac OS or Linux-based PC. "We will not use more
Windows, "said the source," for reasons of safety.
E 'can still use Windows on laptops the company, but
no longer on desktops. " Who wants to continue using
Windows needs a special permit granted by a
manager, and buy a new PC with Windows requires
approval of the responsible corporate systems. Currently
Google does not comment on the news officially, but from Mountain View
transpires that the indication would be the same employees
spontaneously migrate to Linux and Mac no longer feeling safe
after the attacks of last January.

The ubiquity of Windows in the world has made the platform,
over that extremely popular, even the most sensitive to
external attacks by hackers and the best known and
programmers of viruses. Google's move has not met the
behalf of all employees, some well-used by
itself to use the system more convenient for them. But the source
The Financial Times adds that Google probably
disappointed more people would if it had prevented the use of
MacOs.

So Windows operating system was not already the reference
in Big G, and this action would have only a docile but
final tightening. That perhaps also serves to understand how
now the two companies are direct competitors with Google
far ahead in terms of results on the web, while
Microsoft dominates the market for operating systems, including Windows
has the largest share. But that Big G will try to attack short
Chrome Os, his system based on direct access to the web,
one possible revolutions of the future. A Mountain
View fact trying right now to direct employees to
work on Chrome OS: Google wants a company operating on
internal technological structures. For now the software, but who knows maybe
one day more. Autarky to complete a wall
electronically very similar to concrete in Beijing, which in
Google's plans would make the company impregnable.