We recently explained that the NSA likes a lot of Windows out there [1, 2, 3]. It is easy to intrude people's PCs if those PCs run Windows. We also know that the FBI, for example, intrudes people's PCs if they run Windows and so something questionable. Behind Stuxnet, for example, was apparently the government's plot. A new article suggests that "one in four US hackers 'is an FBI informer'". So, which governments are still foolish enough to deploy Windows? The same goes for activists. 'Cloud' Computing is even worse because intrusion by those looking to abuse power becomes far easier. ⬆

"It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is€ also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into€ computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows€ operating systems, are used throughout the United States€ Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United€ States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."

--Jim Allchin, Microsoft