Winn Schwartau has an article on how “Microsoft Monopoly Threatens U.S. Security”:
\\It owns 95 percent of the Internet browser market (which includes
e-mail software) and more than 90 percent of the operating system and
office suite market. Also, 28 percent of Web servers on the Internet
are run by Microsoft software. See the problem?…
Now nearly all the world’s locks to the repositories of the Information
Age are made by the same company. Isn’t that the height of criminal
stupidity? Every time a weaknesses or vulnerability to a Microsoft
product is discovered, the details are instantly broadcast around the
globe, surely to be exploited by the nethermongers of the ‘Net.
The world’s economic engines run on Microsoft products waiting for the
next “It’s Always Something” to strike. The foundation of American
defense is Microsoft. Its products, which are used throughout the
federal government, including the Department of Defense, similarly
await the next debilitating cyberattack. Our national critical
infrastructures, including transportation, power, communication and
first-response emergency services, also sit in dire need of a workable
balance between security, privacy and efficiency. Whether it’s harmless
joyriding hackers gung-ho to help their country or terrorists targeting
an electronic Pearl Harbor, the results are the same.\\