MS makes yet another smart move 1721

Ray Ingles A lot of baloney, Ray. Windows is easy to use to run programs and that is one of the things people expect. If you escalate the administration of desktops to the linux confusion level, you knock out most of the market. It is apparently impossible for the techies to see that, so they carp on their native security which is nothing more than the obvious fact that unix-linux is very hard to use for casual computing. You have to understand a lot of things that people are not ready to invest the time required to learn about them.

By making program installation and end automatic, Windows becomes susceptible to these schemes. If linux had the same capabilities, it would have the same problems. A self-serving spin to be sure, Ray! The DOJ stopped at nothing to toss mud at Microsoft. They had IBM testifying as to the practices of MS in their attempt to convince IBM to dump OS-2 and Lotus in favor of a discounted Win95, for example. They were not likely to pbutt up something as meaty as what Gbuttee claimed to be able to prove. The much more likely explanation is that the DOJ saw Glbuttee for what he was, a disenfranchised loser with an axe to grind and ready to blame everyone but himself for his business failures.

No wonder that the cola folk cling to the myth, but it was just another whine with no real substance.