Nothing more exposes the depravity of America's business operations than the debacle being spawned by Symantec and McAfee. Let's look at this in context.
1. Microsoft designs operating systems they hope are as user friendly as possible.
2. A group of miscreants and neer-do-wells with programming knowledge decide to see how musch they can screw with Microsofts product.
3. Every body jumps on the bandwagon and accuses Microsoft of producing poorly designed products becuase a group of nuts create programs to damage Microsofts products (mainly because Microsoft is so big they make a wonderful target).
4. Microsoft allows a few companies access to the innermost workings of their product so those companies can produce software to protect users from the wrong doings of the evil programmers out there (could the very people tasked to protect also be an attacker? We users pay a pretty penny for the protection that seems to need updating everyday).
5. Assualts on Microsoft's products begin to wreak havoc on individual and business users. Soon Microsoft (the victim) is assailed as a terrible non-caring maker of insecure software.
6. In desperation and self defense, Microsoft starts developing means to protect itself (Windows One care, Windows Defender). And in its latest iteration of operating system software, read Windows Vista, decide to keep close hold on the innermost secrets of its operating system.
7. Enter Symantec and McAfee screaming foul because now they can't insert their programs to protect users from the evil programmers, which they haven't done very well anyway (kept them in business though). Everyone has demanded that Microsoft make a secure product - Microsoft is trying to do so - what's the beef?
(1 - 7) Enter the European Union ( the title tells the tail). Their interest is purely parochial - protecting the interest of European software makers, and now CPU producers, they pick and poke at Microsoft's product to prove in some way that Microsoft is steam rolling their stuff unfairly over lesser European companies. The major idea? Keep Microsoft on the ropes and in the courts fighting charges that they, the European Union have dreamed up. Now the folks in Brussells after years of picking and prodding, and poking, have decided they have enough ammunition to go after Intel. A chip maker! And what is worse? AMD joins the ranks of Symantec and McAfee in saying - Yea European Union - you get the dirty guys at Microsoft and Intel.
One thing is obvious. We want everyone to succeed - just don't succeed too well. If you do, we who once applauded you, will now try to destroy you.
1. Microsoft designs operating systems they hope are as user friendly as possible.
2. A group of miscreants and neer-do-wells with programming knowledge decide to see how musch they can screw with Microsofts product.
3. Every body jumps on the bandwagon and accuses Microsoft of producing poorly designed products becuase a group of nuts create programs to damage Microsofts products (mainly because Microsoft is so big they make a wonderful target).
4. Microsoft allows a few companies access to the innermost workings of their product so those companies can produce software to protect users from the wrong doings of the evil programmers out there (could the very people tasked to protect also be an attacker? We users pay a pretty penny for the protection that seems to need updating everyday).
5. Assualts on Microsoft's products begin to wreak havoc on individual and business users. Soon Microsoft (the victim) is assailed as a terrible non-caring maker of insecure software.
6. In desperation and self defense, Microsoft starts developing means to protect itself (Windows One care, Windows Defender). And in its latest iteration of operating system software, read Windows Vista, decide to keep close hold on the innermost secrets of its operating system.
7. Enter Symantec and McAfee screaming foul because now they can't insert their programs to protect users from the evil programmers, which they haven't done very well anyway (kept them in business though). Everyone has demanded that Microsoft make a secure product - Microsoft is trying to do so - what's the beef?
(1 - 7) Enter the European Union ( the title tells the tail). Their interest is purely parochial - protecting the interest of European software makers, and now CPU producers, they pick and poke at Microsoft's product to prove in some way that Microsoft is steam rolling their stuff unfairly over lesser European companies. The major idea? Keep Microsoft on the ropes and in the courts fighting charges that they, the European Union have dreamed up. Now the folks in Brussells after years of picking and prodding, and poking, have decided they have enough ammunition to go after Intel. A chip maker! And what is worse? AMD joins the ranks of Symantec and McAfee in saying - Yea European Union - you get the dirty guys at Microsoft and Intel.
One thing is obvious. We want everyone to succeed - just don't succeed too well. If you do, we who once applauded you, will now try to destroy you.
I don't now or never have worked for Microsoft or any other software maker. In fact, at times I can hardly spell software.
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