Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 16, 2003 @05:29AM from the blow-me-over-with-a-feather dept.

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.

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For Those Of You With Windows XP... by MacDaffy · 2003-07-16 07:14 · Score: 1, Troll

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?