Microsoft in Real battle for consumers
This should be an interesting fight. Personally I use Real, but it certainly isn’t the end all be all. It has some flaws. (They still haven’t really dealt with the privacy debacle effectively.) Having WMP bundled with the OS is definitely going to make it harder on Real. But WMP has it’s own flaws, and certainly it’s own privacy concerns.
We shall see…
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The last post was about some people, this one is about some days. Some days nothing works. Some days the internal Microsoft Mail Postoffice has random and sporadic problems. Some people can send messages fine, some people’s messages don’t get delivered until the user initiates a Send/Receive manually, despite the setting to check every “x”…
So the government is pushing smart cards as a way to protect against terrorism, right? Well they should read this story, Smart-card security needs an upgrade. -seems those little wonders are easily hacked into. How nice would it be to have someone steal your smart card ID and have easy access to your identity? Microsoft…
The real question is not whether they add it but how. The Internet of Things created many insecure devices because people slapped an internet connection on things that weren’t needed without considering making them safe or usable. Networks got hacked through fish tanks, and people were terrorized by someone taking control of their smart homes. Forcing internet connections on everything turned out not to be so great.Â
Will forcing AI into everything have a similar result?
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