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Gates on Spyware and OS Competition

Posted by michael on from the phear-the-penguin dept.

Ant writes "CNET's News.com has an article that says Microsoft plans to offer its own anti-spyware software." prostoalex writes "Both OsNews and InfoWorld talk about Bill Gates' speech at the Computer History Museum in California. Gates is noting that Linux is taking over, and claims that 10 years forward Linux and Windows will be the only OSs left in the market."

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  1. Re:800lb Gorilla by Nos. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course the product they do release uses twice as much memory as anything else, doesn't work as expected, introduces rand(1,20) new security holes, and includes 10x the features of competing products but only half the functionality.

  2. Re:800lb Gorilla by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I want to get modded up insightful for making up a story that either a.) never occured or b.) is based on actual events where only the character names, locations, and events have been changed.