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people pay for micro$oft software?

i never thought I'd live to see the day :)

There are spyware/av appz that do a much better job than MS and worth paying for!!!!! ;=)

thanks

Wow look, 9down is taking credit for an article that wasnt an exclusive to them! This was seen on winbeta, and neowin 8 hours prior to it being on 9down. So please, stop taking credit for something you didnt find.

Also, I love watching all the people whine about MS possibly charging for a product. What do you really care, all of the users on this site are just going to pirate it anyways, so please stop acting like your so damn upset. There isnt ANY OFFICIAL WORD that this will be dropped, if many of you dont remember, gates said this would be provided for free to all legitimate windows xp users. So before you get your pirating panties in a twist, wait for confirmation and dont jump to conclusions

They quoted the 'source' of every pieces of news. IMO this is fair enough and is following the netique.   And I don't find any 'credit' that 9down wants from the user?!

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      Double Ditto

One Care, lol, more like Who Cares, they can't even protect their own servers what makes you think they are any better at protecting yours.

Where do you get this info? Where in the media has MS shown that their servers have been hacked? Please post evidence to support your claims. I await your reply, and expect something childish.  

 
For anyone that actually pays (no pun intended. heh) attention, the fact that M$' Anti-Spyware isn't always going to be free is nothing new and has been known for a long time.

The integration into WOC is the only news here.

Actually it was posted here about a month ago that this was going to happen, and be implimented into their one-care package along with antivirus.

They must be joking though to pay an anual fee. It should be part of Windows standard...  although if it was, i'd still shut it off like I do Windows firewall, automatic updates, and antivirus monitoring. The whole security center is garbage.

Yet *nix still manages to build it all in the code quietly without making a fuss...  or making money on it.

So their anti-spyware isn't going to be free forever? So what. I have Ad-aware, SpyBot and others. So they integrate it into the OS? So what. I dont care about Microsoft Vista because I run Windows 2000. The thing that pi$$es me off is that they have gone out of their way to purchase a product and possibly integrate it into their OS to fix some flaws WHICH THEY MADE THEMSELVES through a braindead security disaster that ActiveX is. Instead of bloating the OS with programs and "features" like that just FIX THE FOOKING CODE ALLREADY! I Would gladly pay for a super-stable fixed up version of Windows 2000, but of course that is never going to happen because Microsoft assumes that their customers are stupid (and most are) so they keep making the programs pretty and userfriendly. Give me stablility and manageability (is that a word?) and I am happy. Sorry for the rant. It's early in the morning and I am tired.

Excellent Rant, I agree 100%

definately with you Kalumba, you know they can make it gooood but they are not going to do something that s2-pid! look at the way they keep on messing with w/i/n/95, they put a funny dress on and call it "you"  after they eXPerience" we could be fool again, now they have a great "Vist-a" for more foolish games. They keep forgeting Ab Lincoln: you can fool people only for so long.......I mean it!