“Microsoft Corp. is gearing up to release a subscription service that will make it easier for network technicians at big businesses to make sure computers don’t fall prey to spyware or virus attacks,” Elizabeth M. Gillespie reports for The Associated Press. “The world’s largest software maker said Thursday it will release a test version of the service by the end of the year.”
Gillespie reports, “Scott Stanzel, senior product manager in Microsoft’s security technology unit, said Client Protection, as the company is calling it, will be similar to Windows OneCare, an all-in-one service the company is working on to bolster security for personal computers.
The Redmond, Wash., company has not said how much the service will cost or when it will be available in final form.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As stated before, there’s a tried and true name for people that will pay Microsoft for Windows and, on top of that, pay them extra for some promise of protection: “suckers.” Hate to break it to you this way, but if you’re that stupid, you deserve to use Windows, and only Windows, for the rest of your life.
We wonder what will happen if and when Microsoft’s security subscription earnings dip and need to be, ahem, “reinvigorated?”
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Sleazy Microsoft sells out anti-spyware Windows users, downgrades Claria Gator to ‘ignore’ – July 07, 2005
Mafiasoft? Microsoft to roll out anti-virus subscription protection racket – May 13, 2005
Music Label Executive,
Taking out of the bits and pieces is not about my apple programing, it is about a bit of humor and being succinct. I could have gone on a verbose situation but you may notice that the post we can make is limited by the amount of words we can write and frankly, you are verbose enough for a most people but your point is clear. Don’t talk all of the facts, place people into a nice mac head box, give them some of the kool aid and point out the distortion field stereotype. When the only tool you have is a hammer like that, every problem becomes a nail. Just like what you said about the lawsuit, you went on about macheads when the P2P suit was much more than that.
And you insist on making it a fight, typical, you are American right? They love to fight and hate and make war.
I can see your point about taking modifying various bitrates and remixing them to make a mix but I still don’t see how you make money from that, save for the royalty of using the song. I did not know a turntable could do this, nor an iPod. If I want to make a remix, I would use a sound program and a computer, or an 8 trak. I still have not heard of a turntable company or an 8 track or casette or CD player having to pay money to a record company cause it plays music. CD’s, casette tapes (pre recorded), sheet music yes, that is the media. But the media player? Honestly I have not heard of this. A website to elucidate me would be appreciated. Certainly there must be something where a turntable royalty is paid to the recording industry if that is the case.
And you getting after people ripping tracks, well certainly in countries that deal with it. However, you do get a cut already from Canada from my understanding. There is a tax on CDs (blank ones) and hard drives I believe that go to the recording industry. To complement that tax, P2P sharing is legal. So you are already getting a royalty are you not?
I have no problem with you making money, but what are you making money from? I guess that is not really clear to me. I do acknowlege that you do give credit where it deserves but that you are very antagonistic. So am I, but with a purpose.
Now you are pretty obtuse and redundant when you say I ripped your quotes out of context. That is specifically why I added “ I know I know it’s all flawed logic, but ooooo ooooo ooooo what a feeling.”
I strongly suspected you would make such a comment so I my reply to the answer to the comment prior to you making it. That is not a reality distortion field by the way, but a truth clarification field.
Oh, and you can do what you please with your free will. I respect your freedom to request what I should do, I will take it under consideration but no promises.
One more thing. Your attempt to undo the reality distortion field is akin to making the blind see. Imposing your will onto others carries great consequences. So please by all means proceed, I am sure you will learn something.
maybe if mac had more than, what, 1.3 percent of the OS market, hackers would go after it, too. but, it is hard for them to care about something with so little impact in the computing world.
If Music Label Executive – ANON was really a music label executive, he wouldn’t be wasting time writing his own posts. He’d dictate them to a secretary… um.. administrative assistant… who would “make it grammatical” and spell correctly. And after doing just a tad of research and a dab of basic math, any decent secretary would not have let him “say” that he’s had XP for 6 years, with or without a virus, since XP was not even shipped until October 25, 2001.
http://www.thezac.com/MicrosoftHistory/15_windows_xp.html
Will someone puh-leeze bring back ©sputnik?? At least he was funny!
Sometime ago, an MDN reader named пустая головка wrote regarding potential vulnerabilities on Mac OS X versus 97,467 existing Windows viruses in the wild:
“A thorn in the finger is not the same as a bullet in the head.”
The same comparison could be made for iPod scratches versus 97,467 (and counting) existing Windows viruses.
By charging exorbitant licensing fees for its own defective products (like $500/seat to corporations just for Outlook alone), then charging even more money to protect its customers from those very same defects, that indeed is the very definition of a protection racket.
MDN MW: taking
M$ is taking its customers to the cleaners.