MS does it again...

According to an article in Information Week, Microsoft is aware that the 'Kama Sutra/Blackworm/MyWife' worm will hit on Friday, overwriting office documents, but will not release a patch until its regular monthly patch release on February 14th. Unless, that is, you subscribe to one of Microsoft's pay security services, in which case your machine will have the worm removed in advance." From the article: "The blog offered no explanation why the tool wouldn't be updated earlier, nor did Microsoft immediately respond to questions. Each month, Microsoft pushes a revised tool to Windows users who have Automatic Update enabled for Windows Update or Microsoft Update. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has released the Malicious Software Removal Tool off-schedule once before, in August 2005, shortly after the Zotob worm began striking Windows 2000 systems.


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And some people wounder why some people hate MS so much...

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When you buy an OS you're not paying for patches, you're paying for the boxed OS. Patches are a perk, a premium service. People who bought WinXPSP0 bought a shithole of an OS. MS was GRACIOUS enough to get patches and service packs out to them.

If people would recognize this I have a feeling the Unix model would gain shitloads of amounts of ground. As Ubuntu is beginning to demonstrate, the one obstacle lying between the user and an easy, integrative, hands-off experience is Microsoft's strangehold on the industry. As long as they play their politics as they have, it will continue to be so.