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EU Sleuths Think Microsoft Sabotaged Windows
Adam Zweimiller writes "The Inquirer is reporting that in it's ongoing battle with Microsoft, the European Commission is investigating the possibility that the Vole has sneakily sabotaged the Media Player-free versions of Windows it is obliged to ship to the EU. A report (subscription required) in today's Wall Street Journal suggests Microsoft has fiddled with the registry in its stripped-down Windows offerings and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example."
I think they mean vole as in the animal vole - a vole is kind of like a small rat. Here's something from Wordnet:
"any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows" (from Wordnet)
Kind of a slick way to call them a rat, if I do say so myself!
Personally, I prefer Japanese Coffee myself... ...Well, Japanese Women as well, but you can't have everything.
the word of sabotage should apply to windowsupdate instead. They can direct the way people administrate their PC. When they patch your media player, they could have default it as default media player as well. I didn't remember when did I install that .net runtime on my PC.
Hmm, you got me curious.
Which server does the Army weapons lab use? (IIS/others)
How about the Navy?
Air Force (IIS on Linux???)
Not sure why any of this matters though. It's not like any of these are running secure data. That stuff's on a different network, and the people admining these sites are not the same ones running critical security.
Maybe research sites like Fermilab (apache/solaris)
or JPL (Netscape)
would make more sense?