What's Microsoft Up To?

So, today's one of those days when every bit of news is dominated by Microsoft. To spare you six different stories about the Borg, we'll assimilate them all into this one. You have seen the stupid Passport hole in an earlier story; also the iLoo, although that hasn't stopped you from submitting stories about it, oh no. New news: a report paid for by Microsoft shows that Windows is a better server than Red Hat. A class-action suit has been filed charging that MSN and Best Buy combined to scam customers. The WINHEC conference is ongoing - Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison, the Xbox is going to be your home communications center, Wired talks about how hardware will be changed to imprison users, and once you're locked in to Microsoft you get to pay more each year. An article describes why user desktops are locked down. Oh, and here's another on DRM, just because.

Comments

One more for the road

[dfiguero]

An article on Macobserver.com:

Best Buy & Microsoft Named In Scam Lawsuit

Re:Next we tested IIS on both Linux and Windows

[TedCheshireAcad]

We found that IIS runs 100% faster on Windows.

well, if iis doesnt run on linux, would it's relative run speed be zero or null?

What Steve Meant to say

[jetkust]

Steve Ballmer says DRM is an opportunity, not a prison

I think he meant to say that DRM is an opportunity to BE imprisoned.