Microsoft is telling the world Windows 8 is the most secure version of Windows to date. That’s true enough. Yet as Angus Kidman at Lifehacker Australia reminds us, that doesn’t mean you can forget about security.
He says you’ll need to keep up-to-date with the latest patches, stay away from suspect websites and take care with passwords and other connected devices. All sound advice. Read more at Why Windows 8 Won’t Solve Your Security Woes | Lifehacker Australia.
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What I find interesting, Bill, was Angus’ need to preface his article with a reference to “other platforms insecurities”. I’m starting to think the “insecurities” are actually in some parts of the tech media as MG Siegler notes here: http://massivegreatness.com/neutral-or-neutered
I read that comment as intended to anticipate and avoid the pointless my OS religion is more more powerful than your OS religion threads these posts sometimes degenerate into. Sometimes tech writers let those things go, other times they want to keep any discussion on topic.
As you can see, this post attracted fewer comments than Lifehacker normally gets.