E-Government

According to Gulf News, Bahrain is rapidly moving toward the adoption of a Microsoft e-government system based off Windows 2003. There was an earlier article about this here. Last month, His Excellency Shaykh Muhammed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa signed an agreement with Bill Gates to gain access to Windows source code and technical support. All of this causes me to wonder whether intelligence services will now try to infiltrate software giants, or whether an ambitious executive of the future could shut down whole countries.