I really want to agree with you but I teach at a small college and (almost) all my students couldn't care less about Microsoft and trust. They all have hotmail or msn or yahoo email addresses, lay it all out on facebook and myspace and they don't know about MSs tactics. So if MS is shooting for the (lucrative) young-and-ignorant demographic, they will succeed (people who know what they are in the minority).
I've found that young people very trusting and don't care about privacy.
So just like the rest of the sleazy successful businesses of targeting the ignorant (spam, late night commercials, mailings, etc.), they will find a big market and make money...
Wal-mart doesn't make money by earning trust or catering to the elite either. Same market. Good. The world will soon see why that it is a bad idea to be so ignorant with such matters.
I have a hunch that its all about the patents Microsoft could get(next to nothing) in the process.
Remember the double click pataent that Google won for somthing like $3.8B?
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Yay, this is good news. This is the change of times. Its time for all users to adapt to a better future.
In accordance to Vita specs the Creative driver is behaving as expected under the DRM polices. Here is a link about http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html vista_cost
This OOXML issue is the proof we all needed. Microsoft is above the LAW and ISO. Not happy Jan :-(
I have a hunch that its all about the patents Microsoft could get(next to nothing) in the process. Remember the double click pataent that Google won for somthing like $3.8B?
Its good to see that the saying "Damed if you do, damed if you don't", will no longer have any meaning in the near future :)