Comments on: Microsoft’s deal with Giant Software has glitches

By: saran

saran — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:05:38 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:03:52 +0000

Wait a minute – Microsoft writes programs with flaws that allow spyware to exist in the first place, then tries to buy a company that writes software to protect Microsoft’s end-users against Microsoft’s shoddy products, but can’t because another company owns parts of the protection software?

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:58:48 +0000

Sunbelt Software had better be very careful and hire lawyers to cover their @sses, because Microsoft has screwed other companies in the past in similar situations.

If you recall there was a program used with DOS called SpeedDisk I think, and soon after when Windows came out, it included SpeedDisk (a scaled down version) and the original company got diddly squat.

Then there was Stacker, a licensed product. Once again, Microsoft took the code and used it in their Windows product, cutting out Stacker. Microsoft then renamed the product Double Space.

All they do is use their ownership to look at the code, then a month or so later they come out with their own product based on the same code.

Sunbelt will be SOL soon thereafter.

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:49:11 +0000

Microsoft finds that it can’t use something because another company “owns” the idea? How ironic :-p.