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Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users

Posted by Zonk on from the why-wouldn't-they? dept.

Buddha Joe wrote in to mention that the lack of Windows updates for Wine users is the result of a Microsoft's active targeting of Wine users. ZDNet has the story. From the article: "As the most popular third-party translation technology in use, Wine was the first emulator to be specifically tested for via WGA"

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  1. The Interview by lecithin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you admit to targeting wine users?

    Reply:

    In all fairness, most alcoholics are Microsoft's customers. We need them.

    The Linux/Unix market has already cornered the stoner folks. Just look at the latest release of Solaris.

    Oh... That Wine...And you mean 'targeting' much differently. Are we on the air????

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    1. Re:The Interview by PopeAlien · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gates: "Damn it Balmer.. Stop jiggling around!! I cant get a clean view through the scope with you jiggling around!"

      Balmer: "Developers! Developers! Developers!

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    2. Re:The Interview by A.K.A_Magnet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Flamebait ? I thought it was funny. I am OK with the Linux/Unix assertion, being myself targeted... The problem is, I don't run Windows at all and I still drink wine. Being for stoner AND alchoolic, I guess I'll just have to switch to BSD... so I can die along with it :)

    3. Re:The Interview by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny
      Re:The Interview (Score:0, Flamebait)
      by un1xl0ser (575642) on 2005-02-25 19:06 (#11779444)
      Flamebait my ass.

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    4. Re:The Interview by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

      Being for stoner AND alchoolic

      Somebody's had tee many martoonis!

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    5. Re:The Interview by PakProtector · · Score: 2, Funny

      I use NetBSD. I am posting this from a NetBSD 2.0 box, X11R6 running, with icewm, viewing /. with Mozilla Firefox. I am neither stoner nor alcoholic.

      I'm psychotic. Please get it right next time. After all, one has to be psychotic after seeing what GNU/Linux have done to the world of Unices. Like the select() call for example. Don't get me started.

      /me starts foaming at the mouth and falls over dead, knocking the NetBSD box into the bathtub

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    6. Re:The Interview by hawk · · Score: 3, Funny

      /me starts foaming at the mouth and falls over dead, knocking the NetBSD box into the bathtub

      Hey! No dying twice in the same post!

  2. I'm confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft releases updates and patches for wine?
    Said updates actually work on wine?

  3. Wine users? by cmburns69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I was Microsoft, I'd target whining users as well, preferably with a couple of large missles.. oh wait..

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  4. The job's not done ... by jeepmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...until Lotus won't run.

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  5. I dunno.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe they have a mac?

  6. Re:ReactOS also has the Wine registry key by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 1, Funny

    WoW...

    What a good idea....

    I hope some black hats read this.

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  7. Re:Arms race by dajak · · Score: 4, Funny

    They already know of one way of checking that would be impossible to fool without rewriting large parts of wine

    I know! It must be related to bounds checking: MS can try out buffer overflow vulnerabilities to test whether it is dealing with the real MS product.