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Arareon The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to spread malware

And here come the shills, one or perhaps two at a time to defend the article from any critique. I'm afraid I've grown bored of this dance, entertaining as it may have been I've become listless.

Arareon The Microsoft Update mechanism has been used to spread malware

Oh look, another scaremongering and purposely misleading article from F-Secure. This is starting to become a regular thing isn't it; I guess the recession must have hit them particularly hard.

Arareon Chromebox

I've noticed quite a few companies seem to be astroturfing hacker news recently, it wouldn't be so obvious if it wasn't the same people commenting on every single article that's critical of there company or trashing on their competitors products.

Even Mozilla isn't innocent of this but Google is taking this to the next level; I wouldn't be surprised if they have there own 50 Cent Party specifically targeting (social) news websites.

Arareon Our experience using Clojure to speed up Beanstalk

"The Computer Language Benchmarks Game" has never been a valid benchmark for any language or implementation.

Arareon Apple And Microsoft Behind Patent Troll Armed With Thousands Of Nortel Patents

>Number two is Microsoft who is extorting upwards of $15 per Android phone sold from a number of vendors as part of their "fair licensing" program even though zero Microsoft code is used in those phones.

Where are you getting this from? this has never been proven and is built on pure speculation. Without a doubt they're earning some money from patent deals, but 15$ per unit sold? unlikely.

>The pricing scheme where DOS was $60 and the very same DOS + Windows was $30?

What? Microsoft are evil because they sold products cheaper than the rest of the market? Please think about what you just wrote.

>The way they would switch up Windows to "break" other competing applications like WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3?

Microsoft "switched up" windows up with a newer objectively better version of there operating system, Why is it there fault that Novell couldn't adapt to already standard technology used in other operating systems? I don't remember Lotus 1-2-3 ever having an issue running on windows, perhaps you could fill me in because I only ran this software for 15 years.