Before it was a lobbying organization / political movement, MS was first
and foremost a marketing company and still retains that expertise. So I'd
expect that there was a fair amount of evening meetings involving
all-expenses paid lavish dinners with MS representatives each and every
evening preceding a meeting. MS oriented vendors might have also refused
to sell hardware for evaluation of other systems as well. Who know? We'd
need an insider or close observer to sayhow things went down.
Aren't there any privacy laws in the UK? The MS EULAs for 2000 SP3 and XP
SP1 grant admin rights to MS. That's a back door by any other name and
given MS' track record on security, it's accessible to more than just MS.
ALso, 2003 is heavy on the DRM stuff. That means vendor lock-in for
e-mail and office documents as well as the ability to track which
individual officers/departments are working with whom, since the DRM
server must grant or deny actions like opening, printing, editing, etc.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I'd be interested in having your opinions on this MS victory.
I'm sure we can learn from our failures (although that was Sun who was
the provider here) in this case. Any idea?
Does somebody have more info on this? John? Ian?
Thanks,
Charles.
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