Microsoft’s Control Freakery, Continued

Posted on July 5, 2001 by Dan Gillmor

  • Dave Winer: The MicroChannel Architecture. Microsoft’s killer triumvirate is Passport, .NET and the secret sauce — HailStorm. It’s a total lockdown, just what IBM proposed after quelling the Apple-lead insurrection as they tried to dispose of Compaq and the cloners. This time what’s at stake is the locked-in-ness of Windows and Office. I think Microsoft guessed wrong. We love the Web, now that Microsoft wants to kill it, we will say no.
  • Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal): Microsoft Cracks Down
    On Sharing Windows XP    . So, bear all this in mind when you consider whether to upgrade your home PC to Windows XP, especially if you have more than one computer. The upgrade may cost more than you expected, both in dollars and in lost privacy.

    UPDATE: Microsoft PR insists there is no privacy threat whatever with Windows XP. We’ll have to wait and see, won’t we.

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