One Step to Improve Your Online Security

By carlfish on

Microsoft, on their front page, are offering “5 Steps to Improve Your Online Security”, decorated with a photo of a woman typing on a laptop.

Microsoft Promotional Photograph

In the stock photograph from which Microsoft’s designers ever-so-carefully cropped the image, we learn the real advice Microsoft is subliminally offering its customers. Want to be secure online?

The Stock Photo

Get a Mac.

(From macpro.se via the Livejournal MacOSX community)

Update: Microsoft have since updated their homepage, so for posterity (and so you know I’m not just making this up), here’s a screen grab I took of the incriminating photo in context.

[Note for the mentally infirm: This is ironic humour. Flames will be redirected to /dev/null. If you want my serious opinion on the security of the Macintosh platform, you can find it here.]