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Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users
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"
Do you admit to targeting wine users?
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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????
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
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.