US Government Gets Microsoft Fixes A Month Before Everyone Else

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In what analysts see as an effort to stave off more movement to open source products such as Linux, Microsoft is working on a deal to offer the U.S. Government patches and bugfixes for their software a month before the public can get them.



 

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