If they were going for an Orange Book, or standalone, certification, it would make sense to yank the IP stack (which would sort of be needed to achieve a Red Book, or networked, certification) off of the box. Or would removing all unneeded cruft from a box be counter-intuitive when you're hardening it? If this is so, can I get some security clearance so I can play nethack on a classified box? That would be SWEET.
Also, I thought the rumormongering consensus around here was that Microsoft "borrowed" its IP stack from the reference BSD implementation?