Windows: A todo monopolio le llega su cambio tecnológico

In Case You Don't Appreciate How Fast The 'Windows Monopoly' Is Getting Destroyed... HENRY BLODGET Business Insider Bill Gates' infamous video-taped testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial. In the late 1990s, a single technology company became so unfathomably rich and powerful--and so hellbent on dominating not just its own industry but a massive and rapidly growing new one--that the U.S. government dragged the company into court and threatened to break it up over anti-trust violations. The case was settled, and the company, Microsoft, agreed to play nicer. But it turned out that the world had nothing to worry about. As often happens in the technology industry, what has really destroyed Microsoft's choke hold on the...

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La National Security Agency americana introdujo Back Doors en todos los Windows desde 1999

NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 by WashingtonsBlog Washington Blog Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11 In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it’s much more wide spreadthan you’ve heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software. Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software: A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security...

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