[dba-Tech] Free security software from Microsoft

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 30 21:48:30 CDT 2009


Max,

>MS has never done this (insisted you use IE) and I doubt if they will do so
>now.  There are so many anti-this and anti-that against them they tread very
>carefully.

Not exactly perhaps, but those "anti-..." measures result from courts in 
Europe, and even in the US, finding MS guilty of trying to enforce IE as 
a monopoly browser; nice summary at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft.

PB

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Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Bob, 
>
> MS has never done this (insisted you use IE) and I doubt if they will do so
> now.  There are so many anti-this and anti-that against them they tread very
> carefully.
>
>
> Max
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bob Geldart
> Sent: 30 September 2009 23:28
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Free security software from Microsoft
>
>
> Not a problem with requiring _licensed_ copies of Windows.
>
> My concern was more that MS might they require IE be the default 
> browser, or require the latest version or patch, or require that 
> non-MS products be uninstalled.
>
> Bob
>
> At 9/30/2009 05:20 PM, you wrote:
>   
>> Isn't there some kind of moral reason for them to NOT require genuine MS
>> Windows? By denying it to people who have pirated copies, it stops them
>>     
> from
>   
>> cleaning up their computers, and allows them to continue to try to infect
>> ours. Why should I suffer because someone can't install MS security tools?
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>     
> sors.com
>
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