Where Ballmer falls short on security

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$48 billion spent wisely would secure security

Imagine a cafe who's service and standards were so sloppy that customers regularly became ill and lost days off work as a result of eating there. Now extend that thought to include the notion that the turnover of this cafe was so high that they had $48 billion in the bank.

This is the Microsoft scenario. Microsoft have approximately 10 times the disposable wealth of GM Motors and yet their product is substandard, insecure and extortionately expensive. Microsoft themselves are convicted monopolists who, at any one time, are frittering away a fraction of their 48 billion cash reserves on fending off the companies who's IP they have stolen and integrated into their own product as "innovation". They do not care that customers are lumbered with virus infested software that would (if it were a visible entity) look like a patchwork quilt. Why would they? All Microsoft customers MUST waive all their rights to any recompense from Microsoft before they can even use the product. There is no incentive whatsoever for Microsoft to do anything but pay shills and PR agencies to spout endless pro-Microsoft vapour, FUD and conjecture. Ballmer can say anything, promise anything. What Microsoft will do is quite simply this - they will carry on delivering substandard, insecure, expensive, user-lock-in oriented crapware, and they will continue to take more and more money off consumers, while the paid shills preach "market forces put us where we are today" and the 48 billion cash reserve just keeps growing and growing.

If Microsoft wanted to provide security they would draw on the 38 billion in cash they have, and use it to fund a rewrite of their pathetic "OS". not so much an OS but more (in its current incarnation) a mish-mash of low level functionality integrated with Microsoft branded, proprietary applications.

Of course they won't do this.

Which is why the combined effects of Open Source and the new Open Source OS Korea, Japan and Chbina are writing from the ground up - to include security - will despatch Microsoft, ultimately, to the entertainment console niche they barely deserve.

Posted by: jellyclock   Posted on: 10/15/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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