German Government Warns Not to Use Windows 8- Links NSA to Your Computer
This was posted to the dclug list and has been posted here to the groups blog
http://intellihub.com/2013/08/23/german-government-warns-use-windows-8-links-nsa-computer/
What this needs is verification via a 2nd and ideally 3rd source, all good research uses several sources for information.
Makes interesting reading.
In the meantime
http://www.debian.org
Just switch, There has been claims for years (well before 9/11) that there is a back door for the NSA in Windows, so it seems that this rumour is now coming back but this time there is more evidence for it being there, without the source code to windows and independent checks we will never know and MS are hardly going to hand over their source code any time soon to independent checkers.