Google to release operating system

[Gary]

Oh dear, you just shot your credibility to smithereens.

Windows has an "in built firewall". It's called Windows Firewall. (Shocking transparency in naming, I know.)

AV has nothing to do with firewalls. A firewall won't stop you downloading and installing something nasty — that's not what it's for.

Protection from phishing is mostly about using your noggin, supported by the browser. FireFox on MacOS/X is pretty much identical to FireFox on Windows in this respect.

MacOS/X is undeniably a safer bit of kit than XP or Vista but if all you're doing is web browsing it really doesn't make much difference, and the extra cost of a Mac is just not justified. If you're doing more than just web browsing, trying to switch from Windows to MacOS/X will probably end up driving you bonkers...

I know windows has a firewall    I was saying with no need for a av or suite which has a better two way firewall, its a better deal, I know how AV's work I know how HIPS works, and virtual browsing with something like Sandboxie or using returnil which is what I use personally as for saying common sense about phishing, with all the new variety of attacks that is not so easy anymore, just look at man in the middle attacks for instance.

  I  was simply saying that to me, the Mac is a good way forward rather than MS, I even know a Microsoft computer architect who moved from the UK to Seattle, a good friend and he recommends a Mac as well

Google seem to have some good backers now though for their new OS, namely, Acer, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Toshiba.

Stating I had blown my credibility was an odd thing to say, as that's not what we were talking about, I thought it was about the Google OS and as the thread moved on, The Mac OS 

[john]

If Google's new OS is to be low cost or even free then it may be more of a threat to Linux than Windows but they'd have to make it more user friendly and users would need to accept that they could not expect their existing apps to work and be happy to use the ones Google or others provide over the net.