Just a quick note regarding the Financial Times’ report Monday1 about Google phasing out internal Windows client operating system usage, and Microsoft’s subsequent response2. Microsoft has retorted that Windows is indeed secure, and that the facts don’t support the assertion. Microsoft makes its defense by attacking its competitors, and highlighting a few things that Windows 7 ‘focuses’ on.
The point I’d like to make here is that Google may be phasing out Windows 7, not because of any inherent security flaws, but that it’s possible that licensing and maintenance costs are the driving factor to phasing out Windows. Perhaps Google feels that it could spend less effort maintaining internal security by using a Linux or Unix-based OS.
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