Snow Leopard

If you’re a Mac user you will not fail to have heard of Snow Leaopard AKA Mac OS X v10.6. In fact if you are not a Mac user we are pretty sure you will have heard of it.

If you want to find out more about it than the fact it has the coolest PR image of any operating system – the glorious beast in the top left of the post – you can find our more about Apple’s Snow Leopard here.

The seemingly never ending stream of updates from Microsoft may be regarded as a chore that you can do without. We all have busy schedules and updates to the operating system can seem like a bit of a waste of your valuable time.

It can’t be emphasised enough that updating your desktop PCs and servers when these updates become available is vitally important.

The consequences of leaving your system open to attach by hackers can be so costly as to bring a business to its knees.

If you are unsure as to how to apply the updates from Microsoft, or maybe don’t know how to check if they are available why not call us for advice.

This week highlighted again the need to keep up with the latest updates for your operating system. Microsoft have released patches for 5 critical security problems on their operating systems.

You may ask why after even Vista has been out in the field for such a long time there is still scope for security flaws to appear.

The problem is of course complexity. An operating system with 10 times the amount of code is 100 times more difficult to debug, enhance and maintain. And today’s operating systems contain millions of lines of code.

It’s a practical impossibility to check for every possible flaw in an operating system. The best we can hope for is that the underlying design of the operating system makes it difficult for hackers to write viruses and that when they do infect a system the damage they can do is limited.

We’ll never reach a Utopian position of invulnerable, bug-free operating systems. So grit your teeth and apply the updates today.

Sortec Software Development can help you ensure your system is up to date and secure. Give us a call to find out how.