Microsoft crowing about getting the EAL4 rating is pure PR bordering on Fraud. As I've posted before, the first FIREWALLS were Linux. What Microsoft brings to the games are VIRUSES and TROJANS. Don't care how "secure" .NET is supposed to be. This is HERE and this is NOW, and Microsoft costs the community MILLIONS or even BILLIONS cleaning up their messes. So their solution is to "trust them, they have achieved the EAL4 rating and attend Government Security Conferences"...and buy their next revision of the O.S., along with their next version of Office since their new OS requires the new version of Office and guess what? The new Office files are not compatible with the old Office files, so if you plan on upgrading a KEY machine, you will have to upgrade ALL your machines...even if the old ones work perfectly fine.
you get the point... Microsoft is a SCAM
Like I said on the original thread...I really don't care about Linux...but DO care that I not be saddled with the whole Palladium cum TCPA cum 'Fritz' Chip.
Look, I bought the system, and I resent subsequent machines which run Spyware for the Manufacturers. I am looking for alternatives. If that turns out to be Linux, so be it.
Microsoft, Intel, and AMD have only themselves to blame for the whole 'Open Source' thing.