IT Wrestles with Microsoft Monoculture Myopia
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| Geer, a computer security guru with a doctorate in biostatistics from
| Harvard University, lost his job as chief technology officer of consulting
| company @Stake in 2003 after co-authoring a report that blamed Microsoft's
| operating system monopoly and complex code base for the frailty of the
| Internet.
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| The group cautioned that the only way to prevent "massive, cascading
| failures" was to avoid the Windows monoculture.
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| Schneier, who did stints at the Department of Defense and Bell Labs, said
| the monoculture risk exists beyond the desktop. "Windows has pushed into
| mobile devices, into embedded systems, into noncomputer CPUs. The threat
| of that cascading failure is even truer today," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2013820,00.asp
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