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Apple Computer has issued "highly critical" security updates to address more than a dozen vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system.
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Apple Computer released an update to its Mac OS X operating system on Tuesday to fix 15 security issues in the software.
A headline like that is bound to draw the ire of the Macintosh faithful. After all, since Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn't finished-off Apple after all these years (and I'm not saying that this was necessarily a Redmond goal), how on earth can an operating system like Linux spell trouble for Apple?
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