Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.
(This one is a MUST READ!!!!)

"Microsoft has been repeatedly found guilty of antitrust violations but
it has not yet been held accountable for its actions.
It continues to crush innovation, competition, and consumer choice in the software industry."
Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly said the settlement was so wrong-headed that its approval by U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly represented an abuse of her discretion.

Is the Palladium - aka 'Fritz' chip to protect YOU?...
Or to protect THEM by CONTROLLING YOU!???
Now Microsoft has changed Palladium's name to...
"next-generation secure computing base"
(to disguise the guilty?)

Learn about m$ XP, Cracked Passport, Hotmail, ...
that the "Microsoft 'Dream' Includes A Passport For Every Person"!
According to a business plan introduced into evidence in the Microsoft antitrust trial April 22, 2002, the company's "dream" with the Passport online identification and authentication system was to "create the largest and most leveragable database of profiles on the planet" and "A subscription relationship with every user on the Internet." Microsoft already claims the existence of 200 million Passport accounts.
then... Sign Out of Passport!
(100 news articles; FAQ on Microsoft Passport and Windows XP;
Complaints against Microsoft to the Senate Judiciary Comm., House, FTC, and much, much more!)

Read what Windows professionals have to say... and "A few more eXPeriences"!
It's not too late to "Close the Gates"!

How about this piece of "hype"!?:
""We really looked at the fact that customers were letting us know this was a problem,
and decided to break out the monthly cycle to protect consumers,"
said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager at Microsoft.
He added that Microsoft plans to issue another set of patches on its regular monthly release date next week."
(from a news story on Yahoo Feb. 2, 2004)
Because they apparently already have more patches ready to release, but won't until "next week",
My question is: How does reducing a weekly release of security patches to a monthly schedule
make Microsoft systems ANY better!????
And what about the fear of exploits for week number 2, 3, and 4 of a "regular" month?

Microsoft Trial News   and   Microsoft Trial Cases
(Thanks to Unidos, Inc. for the compilation.)

"Seriously though, discussing solutions in the context of Microsoft's inherently insecure e-mail software
is like deciding what kind of paint you're going to put on the barn once the fire's out."
InfoWorld's Security Watch - P.J. Connolly

"Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4 and 5 allows almost
any Web site you visit to read all the files on your hard disk."
"Window Manager" - Brian Livingston's article:
"More flaws in Internet Explorer and Outlook: Now you can receive e-mails that read you" continues:
"And, because recent versions of Outlook and Outlook Express use IE's code base to display complex e-mail messages,
even an e-mail you receive can read all about you." No attachment is required.

"Microsoft admitted that the problem was in the Windows operating system, and not IE.
So much for the virtues of integration. ... if Bill Gates, Chairman of the Borg, expects us to take him seriously when he prattles on about "trustworthy computing" (insert sound of snickering here) he's going to have to deliver on the goods a lot more quickly."
(P.J. Connolly's article sub titled: "Bloated Microsoft incapable of timely response to security problems in its software")

"The problem with Microsoft's .NET is that it is designed to establish Microsoft as the controlling entity of the future of network computing. ... It is going to provide the authentication services that allow Microsoft to control how people use platforms and tools. It is the only way Microsoft can thrive in the post-PC world." - Nicholas Petreley
"the company's lust for control over the market takes precedence over the well-being and security of its customers. For example, Microsoft is hard at work devising ways to lock you into a system where you pay on a continual basis to use a Microsoft application. Microsoft is not doing this because it is the best solution for its customers. Microsoft is simply running out of ways to entice you to pay for upgrades to its cash-cow applications. If that doesn't elicit a feeling of righteous indignation when you get your next blue screen of death or lose data to an e-mail Trojan horse, I don't know what will." - Nicholas Petreley

"It is necessary to stress that there is no position more anti-competitive than that of the big software producers, which frequently abuse their dominant position, since in innumerable cases they propose as a solution to problems raised by users: "update your software to the new version" (at the user's expense, naturally); furthermore, it is common to find arbitrary cessation of technical help for products, which, in the provider's judgment alone, are "old"; and so, to receive any kind of technical assistance, the user finds himself forced to migrate to new versions (with non-trivial costs, especially as changes in hardware platform are often involved). And as the whole infrastructure is based on proprietary data formats, the user stays "trapped" in the need to continue using products from the same supplier, or to make the huge effort to change to another environment (probably also proprietary)."
Congressman Villanueva's April, 2002 reply letter to Microsoft