Comments on: Microsoft Locking Out Third Party Security Software From Vista ? http://www.csamuel.org/2006/09/09/microsoft-locking-out-third-party-security-software-from-vista Computers, science, archaeology and other random burblings Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:18:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian May http://www.csamuel.org/2006/09/09/microsoft-locking-out-third-party-security-software-from-vista/comment-page-1#comment-2066 Brian May Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:01:07 +0000 http://www.csamuel.org/2006/09/09/microsoft-locking-out-third-party-security-software-from-vista/#comment-2066 EU responds to concerns: http://news.com.com/Microsoft urges EU to leave Vista security intact/2100-1016_3-6114613.html http://www.newsday.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-eu-microsoft-vista,0,3461279.story?coll=sns-ap-technology-headlines referenced from: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/21505004/article.pl EU responds to concerns:

http://news.com.com/Microsoft urges EU to leave Vista security intact/2100-1016_3-6114613.html
http://www.newsday.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-eu-microsoft-vista,0,3461279.story?coll=sns-ap-technology-headlines

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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/21505004/article.pl

]]> By: peek http://www.csamuel.org/2006/09/09/microsoft-locking-out-third-party-security-software-from-vista/comment-page-1#comment-2047 peek Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:05:41 +0000 http://www.csamuel.org/2006/09/09/microsoft-locking-out-third-party-security-software-from-vista/#comment-2047 Here is an idea. Would MS dare open up an old version of Windows, perhaps Win 2000, to the open source community? I want to see what a community of developers could make of inheriting a pre-existing standard (rather than having to try to build one from scratch). It would help bring MS products to developing countries legally…and encourage the sale of other MS software (such as office, etc). Alternately, with Mac OS coming to life on Intel processors, they should consider offering the OS for free as a MS alternative, and concentrate of selling additional hardware (ipods, etc) and software to a suddenly much wider array of Mac users. The possibilities down that road are amazing - exciting. I am looking forward to the next two years of OS developments. A critical time for all players and I am waiting for someone to do something extraordinary. Here is an idea. Would MS dare open up an old version of Windows, perhaps Win 2000, to the open source community? I want to see what a community of developers could make of inheriting a pre-existing standard (rather than having to try to build one from scratch). It would help bring MS products to developing countries legally…and encourage the sale of other MS software (such as office, etc).

Alternately, with Mac OS coming to life on Intel processors, they should consider offering the OS for free as a MS alternative, and concentrate of selling additional hardware (ipods, etc) and software to a suddenly much wider array of Mac users. The possibilities down that road are amazing – exciting.

I am looking forward to the next two years of OS developments. A critical time for all players and I am waiting for someone to do something extraordinary.

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