__/ [ flyer ] on Saturday 14 April 2007 13:43 \__
> In article <2335552.ltE80WHzH8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a
>> | technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why
>> | not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can
>> | deliver the goods?
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html
>>
>> He has plenty of links there to show that Vista is indeed a major flop.
>>
>
> They CAN'T open winblows. Too much EVIDENCE.
Forget about the code. There's too much evidence in the specs/interfaces as
well, according to Allchin.
'---[ Quote ]
| In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
| information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
| states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
| information would increase the security risk to consumers.
|
| "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
| also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
| computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
| operating systems, are used throughout the United States
| Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
| States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
|
| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
`----
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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