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The extra chip in the Mac OSX Very interesting. You mention that the Mac OSX machine includes an extra chip that handles the security ?
Well Ill have you know that Microsoft Vista includes a BitLocker in the system which takes this a step further. The BitLocker is software based, and so protects the data flow within the computer above and beyond what happens over the serial line.
In addition to this fact, the Microsoft SQLServer wraps the data in a form that can be made accessible on a user by user basis. The Mac OSX chip is hardware, and so cannot distinguish activities at the user level.
This dual existence of both BitLocker and SQLServer is what is termed ‘Double Data Protection’, which I am sure you will admit is a more secure methodology than the single chip that the Mac OSX appears to be using.
This gets very exciting when one imagines what might happen when the operating system and the SQLServer are integrated as one unit. Microsoft will be leading the way in computer security when this very vision is realized with the release of the Win FS as part of Vista II. You mark my words, it will make the Mac OSX obsolete.
But there is more ….
I happen to have extensive experience at the very heights of the corporate enterprise IT, and this includes exclusive contacts deep within the heirachy of a certain company in Redmond.
I can assure you that there are moves a foot to include a very similar chip that is in the Mac OSX in the next version of Vista.
Whilst not being privy to exact details of discussions at the highest level of the corporate IT, I can extrapolate my experience to present a scenario which is entirely realistic :
1 - Microsoft worked along side the Apple to develop the next generation of security measures, using a ‘Triple Data Protection’ scheme involving BitLocker, SQLServer, and an as yet untested security chip.
2 - After providing Apple with its best virus protection algorithms(an algorithm is an advanced computer code), Microsoft discovers that Apple has no equivalent offering to add to the partnership.
3 - The partnership dissolves, but Apple pirates the Microsoft algorithm, which is designed around the Pentium super chip, and then proceeds to convert their machines across to the Intel.
4 - Apple adds this ’security chip’ that you mention, (which more than likely contains the Microsoft anti virus algorithm), giving it a highly secure offering to bring to the market. An unfair advantage in anyone’s eyes you would have to admit.
Well, the simple fact that the Mac OSX already has over 700 malwares,despite the existence of the security chip AND Microsoft’s dearlyguarded anti-virus algorithm, indicates that Apple does not have the expertise to engineer an IT miracle on this scale.
That will all change soon when Microsoft completes the engineering on their next generation of Vista.
Hold onto your seats gentlemen, its going to be a blast !!

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