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Earlier this week, in response to controversy surrounding the fact that Apple had chosen to include Safari as a download in Software Update for Windows even if the user never had Safari in the first place, Apple released a Software Update 2.1 Update that now categorizes Safari 3.1 as “New Software.

There are a couple catches though. First, the Safari box is still checked, so for those tons of people who just say yes whenever they see “Update Needed,” they will still be surprised to find Safari on their computer. Secondly, the Software Update update requires you to run Software Update to get it, thus installing Safari anyway if you don’t uncheck it.

Personally, I see no big issue with this for consumers. Worst case scenario, they don’t pay any attention and install the best browser in the world. The area where this gets annoying is in business networks when instances of Safari start popping up all over the network. Most IT people don’t want to deal with safari and then have to spend time deleting them all.

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2007 was a great year for Apple in the business world. The 2007 market share results for Mac OS X showed that in businesses, Mac OS X usage tripled to 4.2%, just over 2% lower than Vista, at 6.3%.

Windows XP declined during the same period, and it seems a shame that Apple doesn’t capitalize on the Windows Vista fiasco. Joe Wilcox at Apple Watch notes that Apple’s business advertising is totally non-existent. And Apple has a lot working against them. Windows PCs have long been the “Business Machine.” Most people assume that integrating Macs into the workplace will cause nightmares with compatibility, and there will have to be separate networks for Macs and PCs. The list goes on and on. It’s hard to imagine how Apple could extend it’s hip branding to business enterprise solutions, but they can think of something, and it’s a shame not to see them capitalizing.

Read [AppleWatch]

Microsoft employee Jeff Jones has released his findings from a comparison of Vista, XP, OS X Tiger, and RedHat Linux.

“Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report” by “Jeffrey R Jones, Security Guy (and Microsoft Director)” already has an inconclusive feel about it as soon as that title page is splashed up. But let’s give it a chance.

Before the report starts, we are met with an Executive Summary, telling me first that “This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures and security updates for the first year of Windows Vista and looks at it in the context of its predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern workstation operating systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple products.”

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