Wednesday November 22, 2006 Dave's Bit Bucket
Dave Walker's jottings - mostly pertaining to security
Wednesday November 22, 2006 Why Microsoft Windows Vista cannot be deployed in Government, Critical National Infrastructure, or Battlespace
...and I may well have missed a few categories for the sake of a concise subject line, especially where Finance, Aerospace, etc are not specifically included under the banner of "Critical National Infrastructure".
Read this, and be startled.
Update:
Putting a black hat on for a moment, this also means that Microsoft's licensing verification servers will be the number 1 target for any actual Black Hat who wishes to cause general chaos, rather than target specific organisations; taking the licensing servers down in a manner which resulted in an outage of significant duration would precipitate a worldwide Vista outage.
Also, in battlespace, if you're running Solaris and your enemy is running Vista, it may be within the rules of war to target Microsoft's licensing infrastructure (with either electronic warfare methods or, depending on the sphere of conflict, ordnance) and watch your enemy's C4I infrastructure collapse...
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