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New Microsoft putting it to "partners".
[link|http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060207/microsoft_security.html?.v=5|Yahoo link]:
A new security service from Microsoft Corp. will charge users $49.95 per year to better protect its Windows operating system from spyware, viruses and other Internet attacks.

Microsoft plans to release the product in early June.

Called Windows OneCare Live, the subscription service will compete with security products made by traditional Microsoft partners, including Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. -- although the software giant insists that its aim is not to run those companies out of business.

Ryan Hamlin, general manager of Microsoft's Technology Care and Safety Group, said Microsoft is less concerned with converting people already using other products. Instead, Hamlin says Microsoft's goal is to provide protection for users who don't have any added or up-to-date security -- a group that Microsoft estimates comprises 70 percent of consumer users.

"There's plenty of room here, kind of, for all of us," Hamlin said.
"Kind of", you sick bastard?
Alex

When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
New Bend over, grab buttocks, and spread.
It's the One Microsoft Way!

Considering that both of those companies abandoned those of us not using Windows years ago to put all their eggs in Microsoft's basket, I'm not feeling all that sympathetic to their management or their shareholders.
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New goodpost++
200% agreement (if possible)
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[link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey
Freedom is not FREE.
Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars?
SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;

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New You can do 200% agreement
But only because you're big enough to be 2 people. :-P

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
New And drinks enough caffeine for 10....
New Related - M$' latest Language Murder, in the first degree:
In an ad atrocity, actually witnessed in a brief encounter with the Glass Monster, this evening:

Typical corp-speak peppy (and preppy) presentation, via their current Redmond-grade crop of Etch-A-Sketch style scribblings, with voice-over of -

... We see Confidence ... {horrible ditty} ... We see Security ...

(sketch of fence around some sorta house)
(something about how The Beast is always hard at work on the above)




The Big Lie
It's not just for Washington any more.
It's Cthulhu announcing, I have always been kind and gentle!
It's stupefying to watch.

New What was that Dilbert cartoon
where Boss starts paying for bugs fixed?

"We're rich! We're rich!"

And: "You da Boss!".

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179. I will not outsource core functions.
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New I'm gonna write me a minivan! 21 kB img.
[image|http://www.flubu.com/comics/dilbert2.gif|0|Dilbert|249|760]

:-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New Animal says no hotlinking!
ANIMAL! ANIMAL! ANIMAL!
-YendorMike

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Expand Edited by Yendor Feb. 13, 2006, 11:03:34 PM EST
New Hmm. Try this then.
[link|http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.flubu.com/comics/dilbert2.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.flubu.com/comics/index2.html&h=249&w=760&sz=21&tbnid=MOeAL3WNuuR8oM:&tbnh=45&tbnw=140&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddilbert%2Bpay%2Bfor%2Bbugs%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN|Google Images]. Click on the "See full size image" link at the top of the page.

HTH.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Or maybe this one will work better... 16 kB image.
[image|http://tolcon.org/~granny/stuff/dilbert/dt_money-for-bugs1.gif|0|Dilbert|217|600]

Rassin' Frassin' Animals...

Cheers,
Scott.
     Microsoft putting it to "partners". - (a6l6e6x) - (10)
         Bend over, grab buttocks, and spread. - (jake123) - (3)
             goodpost++ - (folkert) - (2)
                 You can do 200% agreement - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                     And drinks enough caffeine for 10.... -NT - (n3jja)
         Related - M$' latest Language Murder, in the first degree: - (Ashton)
         What was that Dilbert cartoon - (Arkadiy) - (4)
             I'm gonna write me a minivan! 21 kB img. - (Another Scott) - (3)
                 Animal says no hotlinking! - (Yendor) - (2)
                     Hmm. Try this then. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                         Or maybe this one will work better... 16 kB image. - (Another Scott)

Unless they wink.
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