From the March 28, 2008 issue:
It begins:
Once upon a time, the Mac wasn’t doing so hot. Sure, it had its fanatics, many of them journalists, but overall it wasn’t seen as a serious computer. Perhaps graphics departments had their stalwarts, but with Adobe coming out with good Windows versions of its design software, why bother wasting money on a plug-and-play fancy toy that didn’t play well with the rest of the network?
Then Apple released its Unix-based OS X. Then it came out with the first iPods. Then it decided to use Intel processors, just like its Windows and Linux relatives. And then people started realizing that Macs not only worked well, they could handle a command line, translate Microsoft documents with ease—they could even run Windows! And you couldn’t even accuse them of being pricey anymore, at least relative to the average box from the big vendors.
According to research firm Gartner, Macs made up 8.1% of PC market share for the third quarter last year, something that seemed unthinkable only five years ago. However, increased market share, along with Apple’s switch to Intel, has brought something less palatable with it, and that something is malware.
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