Loads of self-congratulating tripe. Microsoft why don't you simply provide free OS upgrades or fixes for the millions of XP computers out there? They are not going anywhere soon.
Next thing we know your lawyers and lobbyists are going to come up with some legislative wheeze and you will be running the biggest botnet in the world. You created the problem so fix it yourself.
Probably because Windows XP is well over 10 years old. You can't possibly expect them to support it forever just because some organisations can't be bothered to upgrade.
They need to fix the bugs that are being exploited by hackers. If major corporate customers are still receiving fixes why can't they be extended to every one else? After all it is the same software everyone is running.
10 years is young in industry. I recently saw a VAX 11/780 in the field still operating doing real work.
To throw the towel in on an OS which has the same subset API as a recent one yet has many minor incompatibilities through shoddy API design (win32) is a shitty business model which people shouldn't have to shovel cash at over and over again.
What organizations? Do you have an idea about how many small business and home users are still running Windows XP?
As far as they are concerned if it is capable of doing what they bought it for, why should they upgrade? Software doesn't wear out or breakdown like a physical good and a lot of the hardware is still fine. Those systems are going to be around forever until the hardware breaks down.
They are also committed to providing upgrades for their bigger customers, so why can't they extend to everyone else, as though it will cost them extra? The only caveat for the non corporate customers should be that if they are not under a support contract and the upgrades break their systems they are out of luck.
Fine. I downvoted you, and it's no longer anonymous. I downvoted you because both of your comments were filled with passionate garbage rather than any well-reasoned thought. I'd be willing to bet other downvoters were not simply cowardly Microsoft brown-nosers.
Its hard to stay calm if you were relying on no-ip's services for very legitimate purposes. Maybe the action coming from Microsoft is whats garbage - not the resulting emotional outbursts.
Apparently the sheer abuse of power entailed by Microsoft hijacking and disrupting the inbound traffic of a lot of innocent no-ip customers to track the few C&C servers is entirely lost on you.
If something like that is to be done it should be done by a state body, not a private corporation. What gives them the right to spy on innocent peoples traffic?
Did the judges even understand the nature of the power they were granting Microsoft? Couldn't it have been handled differently?
kordless is right - you still don't get the point. People aren't downvoting you because they like what Microsoft did (or Apple, in one of your more recent outburts). People are downvoting you because your comments contained little intelligent thought and were passionate outburts, and people on this forum tend to look down on that. This most recent comment, however, is a good one. Instead of just blaming downvotes on other people's ignorance, look at the way you communicate. You replied to my comment 3 times over the course of several hours when I wasn't even online. Why? You started calling people Microsoft brown-nosers and Apple brown-nosers. Why? It was childish and immature. You got downvoted because people didn't like the way you were acting, not because of your opinion.
Which ever way you cut it technically speaking Microsoft runs the biggest botnet because they have control all the computers running Windows upgrade, and if they can't shut them down, they might as well fix them.
Whether you like it or not for better or worse a botnet is an economic resource whose value is not lost on Microsoft and sooner or later they are going to come up with a wheeze to exploit them.
You are missing the point. He said why he downvoted you and you replied with a general rationalization on why he should agree with you, when that's entirely NOT the point. You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar. We probably all agree with you in some fashion, just not the way you put it.
And, just in case YOU can't figure it out, the blaming statements you are making are due to the use of 'you' in your comment.
I read the statement on the Microsoft blog, before coming to see the comments and that blog statement IS smug, self preening, self-congratulary tripe created by a lawyer and a company who want to ingratiate themselves with government for whatever agenda they have in mind.
That blog entry is not targeted at computer users, it is targeted at the government.
Next thing we know your lawyers and lobbyists are going to come up with some legislative wheeze and you will be running the biggest botnet in the world. You created the problem so fix it yourself.