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Microsoft's Security Meeting Causes Unease

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the signing-an-nda-with-the-competition-never-fun dept.

Tony Maclennan writes to tell us that there were many mixed feelings at this year's Microsoft Security Response and Safety Summit. Many who attended the conference felt that the presentations were sadly lacking in the technical details that were shared in previous years. With Microsoft entering the arena as a competitor to these anti-virus companies, one has to wonder about the effect on the free flow of information that ultimately benefits the consumer.

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  1. one has to wonder... really? by cloricus · · Score: 2, Informative

    So hands up who didn't see this coming more than a year ago when they started talking about it...Don't forget this is still Microsoft we are talking about - the upper management is still in place which means the ethos while hidden hasn't changed - maybe when gates and the others go it might improve though not before then.

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  2. Re:Yes! by Poromenos1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Search engine bots don't see sigs (well, unless they're logged in, which I find unlikely). Some people do fake sigs though, like this:
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  3. Re:Yes! by gatzke · · Score: 2, Informative


    And if you are logged in, you can turn off sigs in your preferences. I have no clue what this thread is about as a result...

  4. Re:Wasn't there a microsoft antivirus by giriz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wikipedia is your friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Antivirus

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  5. Re:Anti-trust? by darkonc · · Score: 2, Informative
    It's only a monopoly if you don't have other real choices.

    There are a number of other criteria to being an effective monopoly.

    Microsoft still controls enough of the market that they can bully companies like DEL into NOT shipping Linux to home users except under extreme duress, and NOT shipping a box without Windows (or shipping a box without windows for more than the same box with Windows), and making it impossible for you to return the OS if you don't accept the license agreement without also returning the box you bought it with.

    That they can charge Hardware suppliers for 'certifying' their hardware, and then another $10/unit for, uhm, not slagging their driver when customers go to install it.

    Things like that are indicators that MS still has monopoly power.

    Oh, and their attempt to bully MA over ODF under the premise that anything not from MS isn't a standard.

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