Is need for control behind Microsoft's flip-flop?
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| Meanwhile, Gartner analyst Michael Silver took Microsoft to task
| for its continued restrictions.
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| "Microsoft's policies...come off as a way to gouge customers," Silver
| said in an e-mail, noting that customers are forced to pay for higher
| priced editions, even though they don't get many of the benefits, like
| the Aero user interface, which often won't work in a virtual machine.
|
| Silver argues that Microsoft is likely leaving money on the table.
| "Allowing use of lower priced (editions) could even be worth more
| money to Microsoft as it would likely increase the number of people
| that would legally run a Microsoft OS in a VM (like on a Mac),"
| Silver wrote. "Eventually they will have no choice but to make their
| peace with virtualization."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9733433-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft said this was because of security. Well, they probably meant the
security of their revenue stream.
They lied. A decision was made by the board to publish nothing but a lie. There
we go again.
Related:
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| If the paper would prefer not to quote an analyst who has
| experience with a client, it did a poor job. Silver is Gartner's
| vice president in charge of client computing. Microsoft happens to
| do lots of business with Gartner and also happens to have a
| client-software monopoly. We're guessing that Silver knows
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Microsoft's products well and has direct involvement with the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| company.
| ^^^^^^^
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
Microsoft insults our intelligence on Virtualization security
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| Microsoft has once again pulled out the security argument for its
| decision again and I must say that I find it rather insulting. It’s
| not that I think Microsoft doesn’t have a right as a private business
| to set the terms of the EULA as they see fit, but don’t take us for f
| ools. If they want to restrict Virtualization, just come out and
| say it and don’t make up ridiculous excuses for it.
|
| [...]
|
| Trying to stop a Hypervisor Rootkit with a EULA is like trying to
| stop Malware with a EULA.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=549
Bill Gates Likes To Lie About Vista
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| Denial! C'mon Billy Boy, you know things suck in the land of Vista.
| Just admit it and we'll be on our way.
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http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/21/bill-gates-like-to-lie-about-vista/
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