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Symantec Sues Microsoft, May Delay Vista
AuMatar writes "Symantec filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over patents on the volume management technology in Vista. They're seeking an injunction to stop Vista from being sold until the suit is completed. Given the recent Supreme Court ruling it should be interesting to see if the injunction is granted, since Symantec does produce software which uses the patent. If it is granted, expect MS to settle to prevent another Vista delay."
So now they pay someone else to help them delay Vista. LOL how pathetic.......
... I'm sure it will be time for MS to announce their next generation of OS. or maybe server. who likes using 3 year old server software???
I think people use 'Ubuntu' in their posts to sound cool.
What? Vista might be delayed? I'm shocked.... SHOCKED!!
In soviet Russia, Linux compiles YOU!
Microsoft announces another edition of Windows Vista; Windows Vista Forever.
In celebration of it's release, ID Software and Microsoft are teaming up to release Duke Nukem Forever on the same day!
This is clearly an instance of "democracy with American characteristics", involving lawyers to get somewhere.
Anyway, M$ can't afford to stall the launch any further, which means the users will have to pay for Symantec's share.
Hell, M$ might even start thinking more about security just to piss off Symantec. Or maybe put them out of business entirely, because they live like a parasite on M$.
*Microsoft Board Room Exec's Shit guys, the date is coming closer and closer, and we have NOTHING. What the HELL are we going to do? *Board members think for a while* Hey, I have an idea! Let's get Symantec to sue us for something stupid, and create an injunction that stops our product from coming out, so that we don't have to delay it again, and can use someone as a scapegoat! ...
Excelent idea! Give this man a promotion, a Ferrari, and hell, tell the programmers to take the week off!
23 May 2006.
Microsoft released its latest patch set today for all versions of it's Windows Operating systems.
24 May 2006.
Symantec Products Failing en-mass.
Reports are coming in from all over the world today that Symantecs software is failing on all versions of windows, Symantec cannot explain it, and microsoft are not commenting.
sigh...
Ah, that would explain those ancient Mayan predictions of something terrible happening to the human race in 2012.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
, May Delay Vista
Sigs are for Terrorists.
Does this mean that Windows will finally have a real volume manager? Oh the humanity! Are we finally done with primary and extended partitions, and dynamic volumes, and all that crap? Can we just do something as elegant as "vgextend vg00 /dev/sda2" or similar ARC path crap?
Holy cow, maybe Vista WONT suck.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
So all my MP3's will play around the same volume with me having to fiddle with the speaker controls! Yessss!
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
It makes you wonder if the reason Vista needs so much proccessor and memory was because they have symantec code in there.
MS: "Ok, how much will it take to make you go away?"
SYM: (in DR EVIL vioce) "ONE BILLION DOLLARS!"
MS: "a billion?!"
SYM: "Well, ya see, we gotta pay out taxes..."
"Car careens off road to miss roadkill and causes Vista delay" "Vista release postponed due to high rainfall in the Amazon" "Tazmanian fruitbat goes extinct - could cause late release of Vista." ...
Wait, what does this have to do with Duke Nukem Forever?
And whats even more funny is that Windows wouldnt exists without anti-virus!
Even if the OS was naturally resistant to various malware, it doesn't remove the biggest security hole of them all; the millions of clueless users (my parents included) who happily click on attachments and install fun shareware they get when they slap the dancing monkey in the banners.
Never underestimate the stupidity of users looking for an easy way to get more porn.
So now it's gonna ship even later than never?
My understanding is that the first virus ever in the wild was for apple computers.
Heh, Apple leading the way and M$ playing catch-up, again?
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