Microsoft Defends Passport To Privacy Group

securitas writes: "CNET reports that Microsoft is defending Passport as safe and secure in a presentation to the Center for Democracy and Technology. Other organizations such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Junkbusters and even the U.S. government may be lobbied by MS this week to fend off a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by 15 consumer and privacy groups that charges unfair and deceptive practices."

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Re:great idea(l)s

[chandas]

>this is such a classic microsoft-ism: thinking >up a really good idea, and totally fucking up >the implementation ([d]com, ole, activex, etc).

err, all the above are esentially the same. We call them COM based technologies. Don't let MS marketing dept get to you.

And, by saying that COM is poorly implemented technology, just how do you mean? I suppose CORBA is great. EJB's even better.

Please refrain from making such statements if you have no proof of what you're talking about.

Regards

Chandas

Excuse me??

[jcr]

this is such a classic microsoft-ism: thinking up a really good idea, and totally fucking up the implementation ([d]com, ole, activex, etc).

You're half right. MicroSquish does fuck up the implementation, but they certainly do *not* think up really good ideas.

They leave it up to every other company in the industry to think up the really good ideas, and then they ship a half-assed knock-off of it a year or more after they announce it to kill the competition with their vaporware FUD.

-jcr