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DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the start-looking-for-back-doors dept.

MrKaos writes "Windows 7 is already being reviewed by U.S. government technical appointees. Under the terms of Microsoft's November 2001 Justice Department settlement, and final court judgment issued about a year later, a government-sanctioned 'Technical Committee' has been formed to oversee Windows development. The TC is responsible for ensuring that Microsoft complies with the terms of the final judgment, investigating complaints about Microsoft abuses and regularly reporting on the company's compliance."

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  1. Death Knell by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows 7 would probably have been pretty lame anyway, WITHOUT government-appointed ANYTHING "overseeing" it. I predict doom, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

  2. Re:I am _so_ calling this one: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    your post is gay you are gay

  3. I know I'm not the only one by erroneus · · Score: 1, Troll

    When the US government, or more specifically, the executive office has the power to tell US businesses to facilitate spying on US citizens or even citizens abroad, there are several implications that I cannot get beyond.

    #1 Employees of companies that are complicit with US Government ESPIONAGE demands are quite likely to be tried, convicted and even executed as spies.
    #2 Spying of this sort cannot be expected to be limited to phone calls. Internet and ALL other technologies can be expected to have complied. This would include Microsoft and possibly even Apple.

    It's one [wrong] thing when we have government agencies doing their cloak-n-dagger thing under direction of the executive. But it's another when our consumer products and services are made to do the will of our big brother executive.

  4. Re:You're kidding? by GuyverDH · · Score: 0, Troll

    This reminds me of Katrina...how do you make a huge disaster even worse? Throw some incompetent federal bureaucracy into the mix. That's kind of like saying "dumb stupid person".

    Incompetent is automatically implied by / synonymous with "federal" bureaucracy, isn't it?

    --
    Who is general failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?
  5. Re:This was Clinton's doing by sheldon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you under some mistaken impression that Bush ever won a national election for a reason other than the fact that he was less awful (only slightly) than the other guy?

    Wait, is this kind of like how Bush was supposed to be better than Clinton?

    Have you considered that maybe your judgement just isn't very sound?