i think the biggest problem with microsoft dominance is the standardization that comes with it. if everyone in a public institution like the DMV or others use all MS products to conduct business it leaves them inherently vulnerable to an exploit on all the machines.
this idea filters into other areas like internet routing: BGP4 is pretty foolproof but used exclusively in high level routing. you could apply this to cisco IOS (they have a pretty heavy market share) and other companies like even *gasp* red hat that are trying to make things uniform and homogenous.
without some kind of differentiation in implementations there will always be an inherent vulnerability in any system.
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this goes to show what happens when the human species doesn't evolve.
next they'll ban lunch at school because 2 people choked once.
i think the biggest problem with microsoft dominance is the standardization that comes with it. if everyone in a public institution like the DMV or others use all MS products to conduct business it leaves them inherently vulnerable to an exploit on all the machines.
this idea filters into other areas like internet routing: BGP4 is pretty foolproof but used exclusively in high level routing. you could apply this to cisco IOS (they have a pretty heavy market share) and other companies like even *gasp* red hat that are trying to make things uniform and homogenous.
without some kind of differentiation in implementations there will always be an inherent vulnerability in any system.