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Microsoft Acquires Spyware Removal Company
ack154 writes "Checking for updates on my new favorite spyware removal company, I found that Microsoft has acquired Giant AntiSpyware as of 12/16. I must say that it is very refreshing to see Microsoft finally start to take some serious action to help combat this rampant problem. According to the Giant site, a beta version is expected within one month for Microsoft customers (running Windows 2000 and later, of course)."
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Yes.
If you read this carefully, you might conclude that Bill Gates has been fixing the things he breaks since he was in high school. He and his buddies broke the first computer they were allowed to use and then hired themselves out to fix it:
Bill Gates, Paul Allen and, two other hackers from Lakeside formed the Lakeside Programmers Group in late 1968. They were determined to find a way to apply their computer skills in the real world. The first opportunity to do this was a direct result of their mischievous activity with the school's computer time. The Computer Center Corporation's business was beginning to suffer due to the systems weak security and the frequency that it crashed. Impressed with Gates and the other Lakeside computer addicts' previous assaults on their computer, the Computer Center Corporation decided to hire the students to find bugs and expose weaknesses in the computer system.
This was Bill Gates answer to the shortage of computing resources that existed when he was growing up. He made himself root so that he could have all the resources he wanted, essentially a robbery. The overall model applies to the software he sells to this day, there will always be something wrong with it so that you want to buy the new one. I like the answer RMS came up with better: make your own toys.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Microsoft has made over $1 trillion in the last 5 years (in revenue).
In profit it's probably more like half a trillion, but either way, this is an immense company.
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Omg +1 insightful, a kneejerk unsupported insult! Wh don't you try to back up that lameassed comment with some facts?
It's not that hard, there are many legitimate ways to poke fun(or denigrate, as you prefer) Windows, mostly dealing with security. Yet with all these options to build a strong basis for argument, you pick none of them, and simply make what appears to be either a joke or a half-thought insult. With those kind of argumentative skills, you are sure going to be converting alot of people...
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Giant AntiSpyware? Who the fuck are they? Never heard of those nowhere, are you working for Microsoft and trying to pose as a Slashdot Geek so that the message gets by?