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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Window Becomes Treacherous Computing Experience

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Whatever happened to Microsoft's DRM plan?

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| Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a 
| controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company 
| envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical 
| records.   
| 
| Academics warned it could "support remote censorship" and blacklists, 
| likening Palladium to the Soviet Union's efforts to register typewriters and 
| fax machines. Privacy activists predicted it would hand Microsoft "an 
| unprecedented level of control" over the world, and free software doyen 
| Richard Stallman solemnly dubbed it "treacherous computing."     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Asked if the world has been spared a Microsoft digital rights management 
| machine, Anderson responded in an e-mail: "Wrong--WMP (Windows Media Player) 
| and the surrounding stuff that MS hopes will enable it to do to the HDTV 
| market what Apple did for MP3s."   
| 
| Saffo joked: "It's like a horror movie; they'll be back." 
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9976658-7.html


Related:

Cisco, Microsoft, Others Get Together On Security

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| Microsoft, Cisco Systems and the open-standards Trusted Computing 
| Group each developed their own NAC approaches, which use a variety 
| of software and hardware to boost network security.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/070531/tech01.html?.v=1


Why the world needs openness, not interoperability.

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| This NAC/NAP lovefest would be laughable if it weren't such
| a kick-in-the-teeth to the rest of the industry, enterprise IT, and
| all Internet users. A Cisco/Microsoft oligopoly stalls implementation,
| stifles innovation, and makes the network less secure. In this way, Cisco
| and Microsoft are standing in the way of progress.
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http://news.com.com/2061-11203_3-6112960.html?part=rss&tag=6112960&subj=news
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