Microsoft: Committed to Homeland Security

[Kellanved]

Why is Microsoft in this space? Why do you have a Homeland Security office, and what are you doing?

RICHEY: Our No. 1 goal at Microsoft is to help the president, the secretary of Homeland Security, various governors, mayors and county executives achieve all their goals around homeland security. And we feel that we're in a good position to do that because we have a significant presence in the federal government with our technology and in state and local governments, No. 1. So they've made a significant investment in us and in turn we've made a significant investment in their success. And so we share goals along those lines.

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Are there any particular Microsoft products that will play a bigger role in this? Or are you making specific versions of the products that are targeted to this community or maybe doing some prepackaged solutions that will target this community?

BYRNE: The things that have caught my attention so far, and let's be clear I just started here and I've been focused on policy and operations, but the use of Web services and .Net and what I've read about and talked to the people here at Microsoft about the concepts of trustworthy computing and applying that to the business of public safety. Reliability takes on new meaning. Security takes on new and more important meaning. These things are important for our businesses in the country, but they really are just as important if not more so when lives are at stake.


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http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=116409,00.asp


Just when one thinks that MS isn't so bad after all, they pull a stunt like this.

[0007]

1. I hate Microsoft with a passion -

[ixion]

2. never think MS isn't as bad as you thought

Their goal is a strangle hold on the technology industry, and with the neocons help, they'll get it.

[tom_paine]

3. One assumes if one has Microsoft that all your data is in BFEE hard drives

They are as compromised an institution as any.

[BeHereNow]

4. Wanna know a secret?

Do a search on "Microsoft" "Entrust" and "Homeland Security"
and get back to me about what a great democratic
candidate Wes Clark is for our next pResident.
Oh, I failed to mention, Entrust Technologies was
funded by Nortel (Frank Carlucci and Computer Sciences,
can you say, "Dyncorp?") out of Axciom.
Clark resigned from Axciom and Entrust shortly before
deciding he was democrat, but remains one of the
tops stock holders in Entrust- what do they do?
Darpa, Homeland SS spying and other democratic things...
The really GREAT thing about Entrust is they have developed
a way to track Draft dodgers- Illinois has already installed
the system...GO Wes...you wolf in sheeps clothing.
BHN

PS: Sorry to throw cold water on the Swooning Clark parade,
but I couldn't sleep at night if I did not share the facts with you-
what you do with them is, of course, up to you.d

[ScholarSeeker]

5. I have mixed felings about Microsoft

I wouldn't have a living without them. i work with the products on a daily basis and they are decent products.

[Oggy]

6. So do I

Microsoft products being OK, doesn't mean the company itself isn't bad.

On Edit:-

BeHereNow has a point with Wesley from what I've just skim read.