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Re: Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:28:24 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
  • References: <etenln$2lq$03$2@news.t-online.com> <45fae41c$0$8726$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>
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__/ [ Phil Da Lick! ] on Friday 16 March 2007 18:38 \__

> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm
>> 
>> /quote
>> Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business
>> security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself
>> has pieces missing.
>> "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not a
>> bad product, but bits and pieces are missing," said Edelmann.
>> /unquote
>> 
>> Yup. Thats it. "Buying products" is "innovation" The MS type
>> 
> 
> "Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products"
> 
> Couldn't have said it better myself.

OneCare will be remembered as one destructive Microsoft failure that follows
others, which did not necessarily /sabotage/ people's desktop, e.g. Zune.

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