With Google apparently deciding to cut down its internal reliance on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, after the Operation Aurora attacks in January this year, security experts are of the opinion that such a move would, in no way, address the vulnerabilities which seemingly originated from the users.

While Google’s decision to part ways with Microsoft is ostensibly a result of the Operation Aurora – the coordinated malware attacks that targeted the Internet search engine’s network and, at least, 30 other bigwig companies, in January -, a Financial Times (FT) Tuesday report says that Google was already considering a comprehensive platform change to its own Chrome OS; and the attacks only speeded up the move.

Meanwhile, security experts seem to be largely siding with Microsoft on the issue pertaining to whether or not Google’s reduced reliance on Windows will help address vulnerabilities that can initiate a malware attack.

According to the security experts at McAfee Labs, the real source of the Aurora attacks was the apparent weakness of the targeted users, rather than the technology or the security of the Windows OS.

Noting that no platform is impenetrable, McAfee Labs’ security research and communications manager Dave Marcus said: “The ability to write malware for any operating system is easy. My whole point is that it doesn’t really matter. The ability to get that information from your targets trumps whatever technology you have.”