It Is To Laugh
Over at CNet blogs we read Microsoft to Obama: Say no to Canadian gadgets.
Microsoft promoting Microsoft software [Windows Mobile] as more secure than a “Crackberry”‽
If Microsoft would clean up its act and produce a few products that weren’t hacked with every heartbeat, they might have a leg to stand on. Given the number of interruptions I’ve had in the last four weeks for “critical” security updates from Microsoft, it is the height of gall for them to complain about anyone else.
With what I’ve known for some time about the activities at NSA under the Hedgemony, having something built to “NSA specifications” is not a “good thing” anymore.
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The dweeb is wetting himself anyway since Obama asked one of the dweebs mortal enemies (Scott McNeally) to prepare a paper on the benefits and cost effectiveness of open source software to present to Gov departments. Rumor is that Obama wants the various Gov dept’s and agencies to slash their software budgets. 🙂
BBC News: Calls for open source government
ZDnet: Should federal government go open source?
Anything that would cause the crooked dweeb a coronary I’m all in favor of! LOL
The M$ licensing scheme is even worse than the current rip off. The universities in the local area are all staying at XP and talking about Linux because of the cost of the new scheme. They are pricing themselves out of the market because of their greed.
Vista was a major hemorrhoid and M$ systems are expensive to administer. There may be individual offices that depend on something that is unique to Windows, but it can be re-written.
Face it, for years M$ has been double billing government agencies by requiring a corporate license at the same time the boxes are arriving with their own OEM licenses. It’s a rip off. I’ve testified at a couple of “extortion” attempts because I put the systems together using standard boxes from Dell or Gateway. You show up with a bushel basket of “official” Microsoft license certificates with disks and things change.