Redmond reports Virus Throttler "shelved" due to incompatibility with Windows

[manly]

That is Tom Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer of HP.

HP had developed some technologies to "choke" off the spread of viruses, which worked well on HP-UX and Linux.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Kind of pointless since HP-UX and linux cause 0.000001% of the virus problems

It might have been smarter to develop their idea for Windows first, instead of hyping it up in the press before realizing the limitations and blaming Microsoft.

Also, since no one besides them has looked at the effects of the OS behavior changes, their tech might not have been practical for real-world use even on linux systems. "Got it to work" doesn't mean it plays nice with typical linux apps.

Meanwhile, HP is Barcoding their employees to show them how the company really sees them

 

[Renob]

It might have been smarter to develop their idea for Windows first,

You said a mouth full there my friend.