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Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract
syzme writes "According to The Register (as well as Reuters and News.com), 'The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has signed a deal for Microsoft software worth something in the region of $100 million, covering servers and over 140,000 desktops. This does not however mean that Microsoft and its hench-OEM Dell are poised to hoover up all of the Department's lovely IT budget, nor indeed that this is all new money for them; largely, it seems to be more a case of Microsoft holding onto business it's already got.'" This shouldn't be much of a surprise -- remember the Federal government is already Microsoft's biggest customer.
It figures that a fascist and unamerican branch of Gov't such as the DOHS would employ a fascist and unamerican company such as M$ to take care of their tech-needs. Heil Bush!
This does not however mean that Microsoft and its hench-OEM Dell are poised to hoover up all of the Department's lovely IT budget
Ahhhh, unbiased reporting. Have you considered working for FOX News?
Please help metamoderate.
It's not "hatin' on" it's just "hating".
I didn't bother to read your post after reading that stupid subject. Please fix in the future to be.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Lots of news outlets are biased. The major ones have been biased toward the left for years. Check out Rather Biased to see some of the ultra-Leftist things that the Leftist Dan Rather has said, many of which have been said as if they were objective reporting. The New York Times, considered the "most respectable" newspaper in the country, has some of the most Leftist slant of any.
So why are you picking on Fox? There are many well-established Leftist mouthpieces which masquerading as objective reporting for decades that you could have chosen.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
What do you propose, using Linux? Linux security is worse than MS security. See here. The fact that your fact-devoid rant got modded up just shows how clueless the /. community is when it comes to these types of issues.
Vote for Pedro
Right... You're, umm, smart.
Some of the most cutting edge applications in existence run on the Windows platform. It's faster to develop Windows applications that Unix-based apps because the Windows development environment is so much better, in general.
You seem to believe that your rancorous dislike of MS has something to do with how well people can develop applications for it.
I mean, what do you think, that security holes are going to stop developers? Do you also think there is a good alternative? Unix security is pathetic, as well. It's entirely a matter of the application developer, not the OS. Windows XP _proper_ (meaning the core OS only) is quite secure, the problems you see are with applications (from MS or from others).
Quite deluding yourself.
Checked the rules on your hardware firewall/router lately? Bet there's an entry or two in there that YOU didn't make.
If Microsoft sees fit to change the rules on hardware that doesn't even belong to it, how are they going to assure homeland security when they can't even get home networking security right?
And if you don't like it here, stop visiting this site. Just get out. Who's forcing you to visit it?
You know what? This is really a shit attitude that is so common among... well... a lot of people not just on slashdot but in my day to day interactions with other people over here in the face to face world.
I mean seriously, when does it stop?
Don't like this website? Don't read it.
Don't like your cable provider? Don't use it.
Don't like your country? Move to another one.
These are just fucking cop out responses to avoid an argument, but to you really think that it fucking helps anything when you say this shit? Sure it will shut the troll up, but what if maybe his complaint is legitimate and he isn't just making it up to piss people off for kicks or whatever. Maybe perhaps something needs to be fixed and we should take responsibility and fix it.
OK, I don't run slashdot and I doubt the people who run this site really give a fuck what I think, but if enough of us got together and tried to look at what might be wrong and make proposals to fix it. Maybe then (if the owners of slashdot liked the idea) we could help create something better than what we have. You ever thing of that? Just because we don't own slashdot doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to take responsibility to make it better. That is ultimately what this rant is about: taking responsibility instead of spewing cop-out cliché replies.
Also, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with slashdot since I don't really have an opinion on the state of the moderation system here. However, I hope that this rant will encourage people to stop blowing each other off and start giving a damn because that is the only way things will improve.