Chris Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 Why should the company offer protection instead of fixing the code?Does Microsoft think it is going to get away with charging real money for any sort of add-on, service, or new product that protects clients against flaws in its own operating system? Does the existence of this not constitute an incredible conflict of interest? Why improve the base code when you can sell "protection"? Is Frank Nitti the new CEO?So what is actually going on here? I think there were some bottom-line questions that must have been brought up internally. Obviously someone at Microsoft looked at the expense of "patch Tuesday" and asked, "Is there any way we can make some money with all these patches?" The answer was "Yeah, let's stop doing them and sell 'protection' instead." Bravo! And now the company has a new revenue stream.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 How many of us on here actually know enough to agree or disagree with the argument? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 The article is funny, but also slightly stupid.... about time we junked the entire concept of a "registry" ...The registry is an information repository, a database where Windows - and practically all applications - keep their information stored. Common interface routines allow storing and retrieving information from that database.These information need to be stored somewhere; it doesn't matter if it's in a "registry", or in any other central database.Maybe if the registry is restricted to Windows only - would it be safer? All other apps should build their own information storage, e.g. in XML files?How long would it take to rewrite all applications to not use the registry anymore? I have very few softwares that do not use the registry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 How many of us on here actually know enough to agree or disagree with the argument?How many MS products dont have patches ?It seems to be...... get it in the shops and get the money, if it does not work we can do a patch for it.Except now they are going to charge you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Go Linux! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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