Posts tagged: Microsoft

Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers

By , May 20, 2008 6:59 pm
Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers – Boing Boing

Danny sez, “A Microsoft spokesperson told CNet today that ‘Microsoft included technologies in Windows based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission). As part of these regulations, Windows Media Center fully adheres to the flags used by broadcasters and content owners to determine how their content is distributed and consumed.’ Do they really mean that they’re obeying the broadcast flag that courts and Congress rejected as being executive overreach by the FCC? The ones they have no obligation to follow?”

This is about the best reason I have yet seen to ditch Microsoft and move to Linux or Unix. I’d say more but it would just be Microsoft bashing and they are doing a fine job of that all by themselves…

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked – Security Fix

By , April 26, 2008 1:09 pm

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked – Security Fix

So glad I run linux and my sites are on linux/unix servers.

U.S. Health Agency Forbids Sensitive Data On Apple MacBooks — Security — InformationWeek

By , April 7, 2008 11:25 am

U.S. Health Agency Forbids Sensitive Data On Apple MacBooks — Security — InformationWeek
In the wake of a widely publicized security breach that left thousands of patient records exposed, the federal government’s National Institutes of Health is forbidding all employees who use Apple’s MacBook laptops from handling sensitive data as of Friday, InformationWeek has learned.

Employees at the health agency who store medical records and other personal information on laptops must use systems that run either on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows operating system or Linux, according to an agency memo.

This is beyond words. Go, read the article, especially the comments. Typical top management CYA BS.

Microsoft Threatens to Go Hostile on Yahoo | Epicenter from Wired.com

By , April 5, 2008 4:12 pm

Microsoft Threatens to Go Hostile on Yahoo | Epicenter from Wired.com

It’s this type of bullying that keeps getting them into trouble in the courts. You’d think they’d have learned by now to at least give the appearance of playing nice. Yet another reason I will never purchase another Micro$oft product and promote Linux every chance I get.

Intel shuns Microsoft, taps Linux for mobile Net devices | Tech news blog – CNET News.com

By , April 4, 2008 6:53 pm

Intel shuns Microsoft, taps Linux for mobile Net devices | Tech news blog – CNET News.com

Keep screwing your customers and partners long enough and they WILL turn on you, as MicroSloth is learning, or should be by now.

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