No-one ever got sacked for insulting Microsoft

Posted by Ken Y-N on April 21st, 2008 at 01:51pm

I don’t know about you, but I find cheap shots at easy targets insulting to my intelligence. The story title is a take on the famous “No-one ever got sacked for buying IBM”, as although I am no fanboy for Microsoft myself, I get tired of seeing terms like Micro$oft and MicroShaft.

The latest offended is a blog from IT World Canada in an article about Facebook phishing that recommends you turn off JavaScript by default. It says:

There are likely equivalents to NoScript for other browsers, although I would always avoid using Internet Explorer given the design philosophy at Microsoft isn’t to give you control over your computing experience (often they design the software to retain control over your computer, with their “Trusted Computing” platform being only one set of examples).

Skipping the appeal to ignorance about Internet Explorer, Trusted Computing is not a Microsoft initiative; that is Trustworthy Computing. In addition, Trusted Computing is not about retaining control over your own computer; indeed one of the APIs that Microsoft provide support for is for disabling the TPM.

Read the full story here.

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