Slashdot Mirror
How Microsoft Takes a Name
An anonymous reader writes "According to a report in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer," the Windows Defender name was already being used by an Australian developer, Adam Lyttle. His Windows Defender product protected Windows users from malicious Web sites. Adam Lyttle told the Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop that Microsoft contacted him a month ago, charging him with infringing on the Windows trademark but neglecting to mention that the software giant wanted to use the "Windows Defender" name. Lyttle subsequently signed over rights to the name to Microsoft and was "shocked" when he later learned the company intended to use the name for one of its own products. "
Another French coward who caves under pressure very quickly. If the French only had a little more backbone, maybe they would have stood up and actually fought a little more in WW2!
Horns are really just a broken halo.
That's something we'll never see associated with the Microsoft name. Although it could just be a Northwest thing as it seems most class-like behavior has all but disappeared from Seattle, if not the rest of the area. Over the past 100 years there have been similar situations whereby the company acted in a benevolent and "classy" fashion and offer a sizable financial incentive for the owner of the trademark in question.
This will never happen in the Micro$oft Universe!!!#*#&$*
Had 60 million Americans been living next to Germany it would've swept through them just as easily. Enough with the bullshit.
"Unfortunately, very few among the general population in Western Europe and the US seem to know that historians do not debate whether the war was won by the Soviet or Anglo-Saxon effort, but on how long the Soviet victory would have been postponed if the landing at the beach in Normandy, France, had not taken place. How many know that at the time of the celebrated landing, in June 1944, four-fifths of the German forces were on the Eastern front, trying in vain to stop the mounting Red Army offensive? How many of those Western European international relations or history students know that 27 million Soviet citizens lost their lives in this war, compared to the 295,000 Americans killed mostly in the war against Japan and the 380,000 British civilians and soldiers killed on both fronts?" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/GF02Dh03.html (nevermind that this is a japanese source, this is a well-established historical fact beyond dispute that I just cited the first I found on googling it, I've long known it and read it in Western publications, ask any respected Western historian or google for it)
The Americans, as usual, came late to the party and stole the photo-op. Enough with the bullshit. The Americans were essentially insignificant in the war against Germany. Their most significant contribution were the war crimes of firebombing the civilian population of Tokyo where 100,000 civilians died in 1 night (Watch 11 lessons from the life of Robert McNamara where he himself tells in detail how he carried out that plan and cites that number of 100,000 civilians burned alive in 1 night) and then the dropping of two nuclear bombs over civilian japanese populations. And then they dare put the Germans officials on trial for war crimes and call Germany "evil"! Such bullshit!
I have been modded down the other day for stating the truth about Churchill - you guys live in bullshit tales about history and don't like to hear the truth. I bothers me much how there can be such bullshit about a history so recent and such persistent belief in lies amongst the mass population even though historians are in no debate about the issues.