From: siljaline on
<rant> Mountain View concerned about Privacy ? That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. </rant>

<paste> Google is moving to ban the use of Microsoft Windows software on internal computers due to security concerns, according to a report Tuesday.

Unnamed Google Inc. employees who spoke to the Financial Times said the search giant has been phasing out the use of the ubiquitous software on the
computers its 10,000 worldwide employees use since January, when Google alleges Chinese government agents hacked into the company's Chinese
operations, causing them to pull out of the country.

"We're not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort," one employee of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company said. </paste>

Source: >
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html>

Silj

--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_