Microsoft Virus Spam: SoBig.F

If you're being barraged with Microsoft virus spam emails today, this story notes that it's a flare-up of an older Microsoft virus in a new, improved form. Yay for trustworthy computing.

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Re:Editors need to be more honest.

[mugnyte]

The "bashing in headline" debate continues.

MS was GUILTY of monopolistic business practices. Anyone forget this? They unfairly competed and remvoed competition than threatened their bottom line. For YEARS Sun, Oracle, Apple, Netscape and dozens of other companies were raped of opportunity to get desktop placement, vendor preloads. THINK: Engineer buyouts, underpricing the sale, mass marketing FUD. All in the name of cuthroat competition. MS is high on the smell of money, and fights like a dog to keep it - rules be damned.

POP QUIZ
Does this invite sacastic remarks from people who use other software, or write it? YES
Does this make it a giant bullseye for virus kiddies? YES

Dude, Microsoft is so ugly these days, from their bastardized licensing schemes, their .NET initiatives rolling in/out/away from product lines, to their Longhorn, long winded "revolutions" of computing.

I don't want an OS-as-toaster every 5 years to pop out in some dancing paperclip vaudville act, focing upgrades, patches, virus checks and security updates likes it MY JOB TO WRITE GOOD SOFTWARE. I'M THE USER DAMMIT. Why is the world spending time dancing with this company, and paying for it? Because they CHEATED THE MARKET of free choice. Never forget that. We're stuck in a world that has to ween off of the MS tit of "everyone uses it"; interopability down the toilet.

mug