Monoculture (computer science)

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In computer science, a monoculture is any computer system which is nearly universally used.

This concept is significant when discussing computer security and viruses. In particular, Dan Geer has argued that Microsoft is a monoculture, since a majority of the overall number of computers connected to the Internet are workstations and servers running versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, many of which are vulnerable to the same attacks.