There's a shareholder proposal about this stuff that gets voted on during their next annual meeting (Nov. 14th). There was a Seattle Times article about it last month.
In short, a few socially-conscious investors are pissed about the China blog incident and want MS to pull out. The board of directors have gone on record as being totally against the proposal, and past proposals like this (at MS and other even nastier companies) typically get less than 25% of the vote.
We're talking about a corporation. It exists to make a return for its owners, not to live an ethical, principled life like you and me. Fat chance that this Tipson guy can sway the board and the owners of the company to jump out of such a huge emerging market.
Yeah, this is going to rock the mobile world, definitely. The phone I had 5 years ago would drop calls. My current phone drops calls and periodically crashes, totally locking up when the bluetooth, camera, MP3 player, or web browser decides to take a shit. Now we have souped up graphics going into these bad boys, and man, it's gonna rock. I can't wait until I have to install a video driver update on my friggin' telephone.
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Correct, they've posted the same thing in the MSDN subscriber downloads site. From what I understand MS has to phase out their JVM by September 30, 2004. After this date they won't even be allowed to issue security patches for the thing.
I certainly don't feel sorry for Microsoft, but I feel really bad for all the ISVs out there that still rely on this JVM. One of our vendors has to do a complete rewrite of their huge app in the next 10 months -- it uses MS J++ on the server and lots of applets on the front end that rely on the WFC (Windows Foundation Classes (shudder)).
There's probably a fair amount of J++ code from the late 90's that nobody even keeps track of anymore. A truly insidious worm developer would write an MSJVM exploit once MS is legally prohibited from issuing a patch.
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There's a shareholder proposal about this stuff that gets voted on during their next annual meeting (Nov. 14th). There was a Seattle Times article about it last month.
In short, a few socially-conscious investors are pissed about the China blog incident and want MS to pull out. The board of directors have gone on record as being totally against the proposal, and past proposals like this (at MS and other even nastier companies) typically get less than 25% of the vote.
We're talking about a corporation. It exists to make a return for its owners, not to live an ethical, principled life like you and me. Fat chance that this Tipson guy can sway the board and the owners of the company to jump out of such a huge emerging market.
Yeah, this is going to rock the mobile world, definitely. The phone I had 5 years ago would drop calls. My current phone drops calls and periodically crashes, totally locking up when the bluetooth, camera, MP3 player, or web browser decides to take a shit. Now we have souped up graphics going into these bad boys, and man, it's gonna rock. I can't wait until I have to install a video driver update on my friggin' telephone.
Correct, they've posted the same thing in the MSDN subscriber downloads site. From what I understand MS has to phase out their JVM by September 30, 2004. After this date they won't even be allowed to issue security patches for the thing.
I certainly don't feel sorry for Microsoft, but I feel really bad for all the ISVs out there that still rely on this JVM. One of our vendors has to do a complete rewrite of their huge app in the next 10 months -- it uses MS J++ on the server and lots of applets on the front end that rely on the WFC (Windows Foundation Classes (shudder)).
There's probably a fair amount of J++ code from the late 90's that nobody even keeps track of anymore. A truly insidious worm developer would write an MSJVM exploit once MS is legally prohibited from issuing a patch.