Oh yes it's Sunday.
Microsoft set to post patch for NT flaw that brought down its Web site
infoworld.com
It's been a tough summer so far for Microsoft's security experts. One week after patching a bug in Internet Information Server that let hackers crash its Web site, Microsoft plans to post a new patch Tuesday to fix a Windows NT flaw that enabled fresh attacks to take
down Microsoft's Web site periodically on Sunday and Monday.
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Convergence may lead to probes
news.com However, there are antitrust issues that merit a broader discussion, the official said.
"You have to look at essential facilities--in other words, if you have facilities that your competitors need to get into market, you have to give them access. Microsoft says that Windows is not an essential facility; others say it is. And you have to look at abuse of dominance, where a company uses its monopoly position in one market to unduly influence another market," the official said. "These are questions that belong in front of Congress or the Supreme Court."
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Microsoft Web Critics Claim Harassment
techweb.com
Unified under such banners as "The International Anti-Microsoft Campaign," there's a loose conglomeration of sites that speaks out against what they see as a threat to the healthy and independence of the computer industry. Sometimes humorous, often dead serious, the
sites focus on a familiar list of complaints: unfair and monopolistic business practices; buggy,bloated software; and the company's fear of innovation and need to destroy all competitors.
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NT LIES
www4.zdnet.com
And Microsoft bashers can have a field day using technical trivia to reach unwarranted conclusions.
Just once, we'd like to read a press release that didn't sound like an outtake from Jim Carrey's Liar Liar. Somehow we don't think that's
going to happen anytime soon, though. Want to know what's really going on with Windows NT? We've got the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Redmond Rose
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