{"id":1668,"date":"2003-08-28T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/stay-away-from-ms\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:51:14","slug":"stay-away-from-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/stay-away-from-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Stay away from MS&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13618,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theinquirer.net\\\/?article=11249&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20181127131216\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.theinquirer.net\\\/?article=11249&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:14:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 08:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 08:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13398,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macbytes.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110426032525\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macbytes.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 10:33:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 08:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 22:46:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 22:46:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>According to the Register, the Department of Homeland Security is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=11249\" title=\"Microsoft software 'riddled with vulnerabilities', trade body claims\">urged to avoid using Microsoft products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  THE US Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security to avoid using Microsoft software.<\/p>\n<p>  The Washington based association, which represents members that generate over \\$300 billion, has issued an open letter to Tom Ridge, Secretary of the department, urging him to review his decision to choose Microsoft for its desktops and servers.<\/p>\n<p>  It claims that last week&#8217;s events relating to the Blaster and SoBig worms, have highlighted problems in cybersecurity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macbytes.com\/\" title=\"MacBytes\">MacBytes<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE US  Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security to avoid using Microsoft software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}