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Boy, you gotta love this: The text of the article mentions google abandoning Windows OS "Google to abandon Windows." for security reasons, yet in the video, which supposedly is about google's strong security practices, you see a guy using a windows machine. For those curious is at 1:07. :)

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Windows is not running on their servers, and the computer shown running windows seems only to be used by the techs who are putting the servers together.

Yes, but the point the parent comment is referring to is that Google (apparently) abandoned Microsoft Windows completely - across the entire company. Even admin staff, accounts staff, the computers used to book free massages etc.

Some how I doubted it (how would they QA test any of their Windows executables such as Chrome or GTalk) but it was what they announced.

Essentially what happened was you had to have a manager approved justification for running a windows machine, whereas previously it was left entirely up to user choice.

Google also has a habit of releasing information to the public as if it's current, whereas it's actually what they were doing a few years previously. I wouldn't be surprised if that video segment was three or four years old.

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