Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract

[mushrooomprince]

The government does use windows by the way.  My father is a software engineer for the goverment today.


did anyone besides me look at this ?


http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3206953


The base where my dad works at got hit by a virus and many machines were destroyed.  And incase you guys weren't paying attention microsoft was down for a short while also.


Perhaps netcraft has the uptime statistics

[jasonlane]

Surely questions must be being asked now?! M$ has done nothing but damage to this industry.

[ August 01, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[wargames_guru]

quote:Originally posted by The Stiller:
I doubt the government would really use windows, it is probably just a way to get people to trust microsoft

or maybe they are that fucking stupid

UH, the US Air Force uses win2k pro. heh, the gal I make delivery's to @ Falcon AFB, has all sorts of probs, the network there is down 40% of the time........OUCH, Uncle Sam sure likes wasting OUR $$$

   

[ August 10, 2003: Message edited by: wargames_guru ]

[slvadcjelli42]

You know what really boggles MY mind? The fact that the US government isn't using it's own completely free, self-developed, ultra-secure Linux distro!! I'm not even speaking hypothetically, here it is! http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html Hmm... $90,000,000 versus probably about $0... and that's just the money issue... What the #%@! are they THINKING?