I read this article at http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11067
"As we've recently seen, these certifications don't guarantee that these platforms are secure. These Microsoft "certified" operating systems have just been compromised on a massive international scale by the "LoveSAN" or "MSBlaster" worm. Microsoft has had to front-end its "WindowsUpdate" site with about 15,000 Akamai servers this weekend (and very ironically, those Akamai servers are all running Linux). This vulnerability is even suspected as the root cause of Thursday night's extensive power blackout throughout the Northeast and Upper Midwest US and extending into Canada, as this SecurityFocus posting posits. At this juncture, one might really wonder how much the DoD formal certifications are actually worth, in terms of effective IT infrastructure security." Isn't it ironic that Microsoft resorts to Linux to save its own face? And I hope last week's blackout opens up people's eyes that its about time that we look seriously into M$ alternatives (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). Nash
