Microsoft places money above the security of its software users
Scot Finnie, who is a long-term writer about Windows, has posted a blog entry where he adds his voice to the chorus of criticism of Microsoft’s recent draconian anti-piracy measures such as WGA. Finnie is by no means one of the ABM (Anything But Microsoft) group but his remarks are pretty scathing. He starts his blog
There was a time when Microsoft was an honorable company. It’s getting more and more difficult to resolve any such notion with the 2006 version of the software giant.
Later he says
Microsoft is drunk on its own Kool-Aid. It has become this era’s Gi-normous ACME Corporation, like Standard Oil and AT&T before it. It has completely lost touch with its beginnings. Because there was a time that Microsoft was David to IBM’s Goliath. And Microsoft has more than once gulled the giant. But in its giant suit, Microsoft looks pathetic. Other than attempting month in, month out to deliver profits for its Wall Street masters, Microsoft lacks mission, has gotten far away from its roots and lacks any sense of innovation.
Finnie makes some other pretty strong comments but I want to repeat that he is a balanced writer who is not one of the knee-jerk pack who never find anything good about Micrososft. The fact is, there has always been a large streak of arrogance at Microsoft and it’s showing again.
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