It’s certainly not much of a surprise, given the ever-increasing number of attacks against Windows of late, but more and more people are moving to the Mac platform after getting hit by one too many Windows security problems.

USATODAY.com - Mac or PC? Windows’ security issues help some users choose: “Cultishness aside, though, people are switching because of the security issue. In Austin, computer consultant Brad Hudelson was once a high-level manager at Dell, the leading maker of Windows PCs. Hudelson says he “gave up after Sasser (virus attacks) last year and replaced all my machines with Apples and Mac OS X.”

Physician Thomas Essman switched for the same reason. So did Bryan Crawford, a biology professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. “I’ve been in computer heaven ever since,” Crawford says. Here’s a particularly good one: Daryl Forrest is a developer of software for Windows. “I have moved all non-work-related computing to a new Apple Power Mac G5,” he writes. “I like Windows XP, but the risks are too high these days. It’s sad that it has gotten to this.” On and on it goes, one e-mail after another.”

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p>On a personal note, Prairie’s dad is one of these people (indirectly through me — I helped convince Prairie to switch, though she’d already been considering it, and her dad got hooked when he got to play with her iMac during a recent visit). Another one bites the dust…;)

(Via MacMinute.)

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