Google is refusing to let new employees use Windows PCs over fears about its security.
New recruits are given the choice of running Mac OS X or Linux PCs, while many existing staff are migrating from Windows, according to a report in the Financial Times. The move follows the high profile attacks on Google at the end of last year, in which a hole in Internet Explorer was exploited by Chinese hackers.
"We’re not doing any more Windows," a Google employee told the FT. "It is a security effort.”