Microsoft becoming 'software police,' say users
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| Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia
| that outflanked one of the company's touted security features in Windows
| Vista, by having the program's digital certificate revoked.
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| Users took Microsoft to task for the move, noting the slippery slope the
| company was walking on, with some blasting the vendor for playing "software
| police."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029161
Similar accusations were made by Web sites that are discriminated against by
Microsoft's Web browser.
Related:
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| Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world
| thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself
| a government department. How else to see its latest scheme whereby,
| if you ignore its questions, it will report you to its private
| paid-for policemen at the Business Software Alliance?
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39285719,00.htm
Microsoft cracks down on UK licences
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| According to ComputerWorld, Vole has sent out a series of letters
| threatening legal action using its agents the Business
| Software Alliance (BSA).
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| Ram Dhaliwal, Microsoft's licensing programs manager in the
| UK said the move was to "spark off the engagement" with its customers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37281
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