TameBear: Microsoft WatchKeeping an eye on monopoly power in the software industry. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- December 8, 2005 Gates To Be Proved Wrong on Spam: According to security company Sophos, Bill Gates' prediction that spam would be "a thing of the past" by the year 2006 has virtually no chance of coming true. The Microsoft founder made his claim at the World Economic Summit in 2004, along with the assersion that Microsoft was working on a variety of solutions to the junk email problem. ZDnethttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2005/12/08.html#a753 (Untitled)- December 1, 2005 Sober Attack Biggest Virus Outbreak Ever: The latest Windows virus is a whopper, according to email security firm Postini. In just the last seven days, the company has captured enroute and quarentined over 218 million messages containing the Windows computer infection. Apparently warnings from the FBI and CIA are an excellent ruse for getting people to click and spread the latest worm. Information Weekhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2005/12/01.html#a750 |