ah, monopoly!
Kent Paul Dolan
with an overwhelming share of the market, wants to
discontinue selling, and later supporting, its
barely acceptable Windows XP OS product, and force
buyers of new computers, and later owners of
existing computers, to pay good money for its
incredibly lame and widely rejected Windows Vista
product instead.
One excellent way to do that, a tactic Microsoft has
used many, many times before, is to make what it
wants to go away look dysfunctional, and what it
wants to promote look more functional in comparison.
One frequently employed way (by Microsoft in the
past) to do that is selectively to break third party
software by OS patches (or features in new OS
releases).
Enter ZoneAlarm, a competing, (free for private use
in its most basic form) firewall to one Microsoft
bundles with WinXP, an ideal target for such tactics.
Funny thing, right after I shut down my computer and
saw some Microsoft upgrade I'd never seen ask
permission to be installed, install itself, delaying
shutdown by several minutes, ZoneAlarm on my WinXP
system, stopped being able to talk to the Internet
the next time I booted my computer:
Welcome to ZoneAlarm User Forum
Critical Issue (7/8/2008) Windows update
(KB951748) causing loss of internet access.
New ZoneAlarm versions posted for all products
Click here to download
http://forums.zonealarm.org/zonelabs/
If that's a coincidence, or an innocent Microsoft
blunder, then I'm Marie of Romania.
xanthian.
Kent Paul Dolan
> xanthian.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, the existing ZoneAlarm
release for Windows Vista just naturally continued
to operate flawlessly, part B of plan A.
Paranoia or M$ planning? You decide.
xanthian.
Rev. 11D Meow!
himself to be, he can tell us EXACTLY what broke
in the code.
go for it, 'kent'!
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