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Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

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Homeland Insecurity

In a move which brings a whole new mean­ing to the “Blue Screen of Death”, the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity has awarded a $90 Mil­lion con­tract to Microsoft to pro­vide the desk­top and server soft­ware for about 140,000 com­put­ers inside the organization.

I would nor­mally use pro­fan­ity here, but I think I’m too stunned by the com­plete igno­rance this deci­sion displays.

Tom Ridge and Co. cer­tainly had other options, and I think we all know that bad things are likely to hap­pen because of this.

Oth­ers have men­tioned mov­ing to another coun­try as a safety mea­sure — I vote for North­ern Ire­land, at least it’s safe there…

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, July 17th, 2003.

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2 comments on “Homeland Insecurity”

  1. Posted by afrael on Thursday, July 17th, 2003.

    I don’t under­stand the Gov­er­ment. I mean, is it the same Ms sued for monop­oly and the same Ms that reale­ses patches every other day, oh well, Zeld­man said it best…

  2. Posted by Sunny on Thursday, July 17th, 2003.

    really the only other alter­na­tive was linux. i dont think macs are cost effec­tive enough (albeit being solid per­form­ers) to be con­sid­ered a choice in this spe­cific arena.

    i won­der why they didnt use linux. it would have been a cost effec­tive solu­tion that would make more sense given the eco­nomic con­di­tions. also it would have been a sig­nif­i­cant boost to open source initiatives.

    one thing thats really obvi­ous is that Microsoft has quickly learned the polit­i­cal game. before the anti-trust suit, microsoft was nowhere in the wash­ing­ton radar. now they are obvi­ously very much in the business.