Google employees are not allowed to use Microsoft’s Windows Operating System after a series of security risks. They are forcing their more than 10,000 employees to use Apple’s OSX and Linux. They also will have no objection if employees use Google’s own Chrome operating system. The decision was made after the blockage of Google’s Chinese operation in January when some Chinese hackers hacked Google in China preventing it working properly for hours. An investigation was launched after that incident by Google which now reported that actually it was the failure of operating system which allowed Chinese hackers to break Google’s internal security system.
The company wants completely obedience in this regard and they don’t want to see any other case of this kind in future. Most employees have been reverted towards Mac OS while those who still want to stay with PCs will have to get permission from high officials. This past January, Google became victim of ‘highly sophisticated and targeted attack’ when various Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were blocked by the hackers. Chinese governments had refused to accept any role in that attack and said that it was due to internal weakness of Explorer web browser.
Google is closing its operation in China and they are near to quit country closing their offices. Google and Microsoft are big rivals of each other and this step can affect their relations. This year, Microsoft launched its search engine “Bing” with hopes to steal some traffic from Google. It is not like that if Linux or Mac OS are much safer than Microsoft, but just they faced less cyber attacks than Microsoft.