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Thread #46208   Message #686111
Posted By: Amos
09-Apr-02 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why don't Macs get viruses?
Subject: RE: BS: Why don't Macs get viruses?
They got the whole Office 2000 suite about nine months before the Intel players. And Phtoshop was a Mac app long before it could be ported to the (back then) more clunky Windows environment, and so was Pagemaker and (I believe) Quark; and there are a number of others even today that are Mac only -- usually the high end graphics management stuff, and some games. ITunes, and the Mac video editing software will probably never show up in Windows although there are some functional nearly-equivalents. Printer drivers? Mine have always worked flawlessly, plug-and-play and no or very little config actions needed.

There are a lot of exceptions to the generalisation mentioned.

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