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Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

jeffy124 writes "C|net News.com is embarking on a seven day comprehensive report on how Microsoft is moving themselves into position to be The Gatekeeper Of The Internet through Windows XP. The first installment explains the basics of how this is going to happen: Reminders that last for days encouraging users to sign up for Passport, and how Windows will evenutally resemble services like AOL."

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  1. I want Microsoft to be the Gatekeepers! by Desus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't understand Slashdot. Not everything Microsoft does is evil. Hell, I want them to be the gatekeepers of the internet. I find that worrying about things like personal freedom, privacy, and security tax my little mind too much. So I'd rather have a corporation deal with that for me.

    Also, my mother still picks out my clothing for me. Decisions like this worry me so much.

  2. Good - Let them go! by wirefarm · · Score: 5, Funny

    By ensuring a Windows-only "internet" they are granting freedom to Linux users and people saavy enough not to play along...
    I was happy enough with the BBS culture of 10 - 15 years ago - I will be happy to see all of those morons gone. If you can't figure out that you don't need Windows, I'm not sure that I want to know you...
    Good riddance to them - For a while, it was as if the football team had joined the A/V club and now they're being shepherded out of the room - let them go... Maybe I'll get less spam and fewer Code Red attacks...

    Obviously Somewhat Embittered,
    Jim in Tokyo

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  3. Re:Quote of the Day (scary!) by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well not everyone has a fear of relationships, its the month billing part that I don't like. :)

  4. At least the commercials will improve by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sick and tired of "Where do you want to go today?" It'll be sweet when they replace that:

    Bill Gates, uncombed and speaking an octave below his normal voice: "Are you the keymaster?"

  5. If MS becomes the gatekeeper of the internet... by ralmeida · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...why don't we just break through the Windows?

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  6. Re:Quote of the Day (scary!) by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I. Did Not. Have Billing. Relations. With that company.

    Considering some of the connotations that "relationships" can have, this might be more accurate than not. Unfortunately, I think the relationship Microsoft wants to have with me is much the same as the relationship the large, tattooed, shaven-headed man in the prison cell wishes to have with me....

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  7. For Heaven's sake by hawk · · Score: 4, Funny
    Just get married. Then it's easy. If you come downstairs and your wife screams then hangs her head to shake it, you go back up and try again.


    OK, so it's not foolproof. SHe didn't think that that plaid suit & plaid shirt went together, but , really, they did!


    hawk