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Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes
tassii writes "In this article from Reuters, Massachusetts' DA's office told the judge in the Microsoft Anti-trust trial that it was looking into Microsoft settlement complaints. Among complaints being examined by Massachusetts was whether Microsoft had violated portions of the settlement prohibiting pacts requiring exclusive support of Microsoft software. Massachusetts was also examining whether the company had properly offered communications protocols allowing non-Microsoft software to work well with Windows." An Associated Press article covers the same story; the non-Microsoft software mentioned in both stories is Linux, but it's not clear which company's promotion of Linux is drawing the attention.
Actually, I have banking software that only works in windows (well it's more secure, what would you expect a bank to use?), it crashes 1 out 5 times I use it at a rough guess. But then that would probably be a hardware problem wouldn't it?
Um...I hate to tell you, but...if it's just the application that's crashing, it (a) may well be trojaned, and (b) could very well be leaving easily compromised banking information in open files and readable memory, even if it's i/o to other processes is all encrypted. I've seen some awfully insecure banking applications.
It is not necessarily more secure just because it came from a bank! Think about it! If you were a crooked programmer, now what kind of an organisation would you go to work for? A BANK! Why? Like John Dillinger said, "Because that's where the money is!"
Funny I don't have any hardware problems with the other dozen identical machines in the department that run another OS.
YAH! All the more reason to encourage the redevelopment or, if necessary, reverse engineering of that banking application to LIN^h^h^hBSD^h^h^hSOLAR^h^h^h^h^hthat er um "other OS."
AAHH-OOO! Penguins of Laingholm.
What sort of file is it? Outlook XP quarantines certain kinds of files just because they might be full of the evil. Of course, I'm sure you did a whole bunch of research into it :P
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