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yustr · 05-29-2009, 05:56 PM

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Well yustr does anyway. The government (and a lot of companies) made a cost/risk decision to use commercial-off-the-shelf software (Microsoft XP) for most of their applications. The gov't certainly could have contracted with IBM,MS, INTEL, etc to develop a gov't only operating system that would (could) have been much more robust. They chose not to. Now its a "national security" issue.

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yustr Asst. Manager, The Conversation Pit Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Connecticut shore Posts: 6,038 OS: XP Pro My System	Obama says Microsoft at Fault LINK Well yustr does anyway. The government (and a lot of companies) made a cost/risk decision to use commercial-off-the-shelf software (Microsoft XP) for most of their applications. The gov't certainly could have contracted with IBM,MS, INTEL, etc to develop a gov't only operating system that would (could) have been much more robust. They chose not to. Now its a "national security" issue. __________________ If there are lawyers or politicians involved, logic may be a very poor tool for reaching a conclusion.