I think you missed an opportunity for a fart joke.

I don't think such a thing would be popular. Most people don't care, but those few that do would find it easier to use a service with a better privacy policy. Perhaps Bing or Yahoo! could profit from the backlash in the unlikely event that one should materialize.

"Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft's operating system security guide without constraining the user to perform their everyday tasks, whether those tasks are being performed in the public or private sector,"

DISA and the NSA produce guides.

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/index.html
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/index.shtml

They're patting one another on the back because they worked on the guide before Windows 7 was released.

Here is a real answer:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

This is software from Microsoft which helps prevent unpriveleged users from altering your computer in any way. Install this, enable the guest account, and switch users when people ask to borrow your machine. You'll need a password on your account, of course.

...constantly playing catch-up to Microsoft.

Microsoft .doc is arguably the worst format ever. It's pretty much just a dump of Word's internal state. To make it work, you pretty much have to re-implement MS Word.

I don't think nutter is a particularly harsh term. Have you heard him sing?

Java is not a trap. Never was. Something like Java could have contributed to a world in which Linux on the desktop might have been more useful to more people. Java pre-installs on Windows fizzled because of legal issues, and on Linux fizzled because of unfounded fears.

Now the only de-facto universal platform is web+flash. Stallman will tell you that's a trap too.

RMS is a nutter.