In article <1320820.JrInsxn8BW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> __/ [ flyer ] on Saturday 14 April 2007 13:43 \__
>
> > In article <2335552.ltE80WHzH8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> >> Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
> >>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a
> >> | technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why
> >> | not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can
> >> | deliver the goods?
> >> `----
> >>
> >> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html
> >>
> >> He has plenty of links there to show that Vista is indeed a major flop.
> >>
> >
> > They CAN'T open winblows. Too much EVIDENCE.
>
> Forget about the code. There's too much evidence in the specs/interfaces as
> well, according to Allchin.
Very interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
Win will go the way of all infectious diseases -- buried forever. But
it's interesting that it all is becoming more dangerous to its producers
than to customers.
>
>
> '---[ Quote ]
> | In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
> | information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
> | states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
> | information would increase the security risk to consumers.
> |
> | "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
> | also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
> | computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
> | operating systems, are used throughout the United States
> | Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
> | States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
> |
> | In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
> | investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
> | Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
> | archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
> | might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
> | damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
> | 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
> | for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
> `----
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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