Security News > 2021 > May > Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose

Desktop OSes are more vulnerable than mobile OSes, purely because they're general purpose tools designed to run arbitrary code from arbitrary sources.

Despite the growth of the sandboxed browser model, most obviously expressed in Chromebooks bringing mobile security sensibilities into the edge of the desktop, the basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety.

Where the desktop OS still dominates, and where it should be shot, butchered and melted down for glue, is on the desks of enterprise workforces.

Microsoft makes its bread and butter off enterprise Windows licensing, so of course it is utterly wedded to its huge corporate customer base sticking with the mutant offspring of Windows 3.1.

Apple is, after all, the professional's platform, for reasons just as historical as Microsoft's dominance in the enterprise.

Microsoft's move to a minimal, ChromeOS-esque desktop model is one choice.

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