CCIA Urges Dept. of Homeland Security to Avoid Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "The Inquirer has posted an article reporting that the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security, in an open letter to Tom Ridge, secretary of the department, to avoid using Microsoft software because Microsoft's software is 'riddled with obvious and easily exploited vulnerabilities.'"

Comments

But what happens if

[DaLiNKz]

What happens if SCO goes after the Department of Homeland security for using something like linux? Would it be considering terrorism?

I knew it!

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft supports terrorism!

Re:Then what?

[DASHSL0T]

That must be why Apache has so many more security problems than IIS, since it is twice as widely used.