{"id":69,"date":"2005-11-07T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=69"},"modified":"2005-11-09T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T14:25:01","slug":"microsofts-grand-scheme-to-take-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/microsofts-grand-scheme-to-take-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s grand scheme to take over the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/11\/02\/microsoft_google_developers\/\">Developers become advertisers with Microsoft | The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2005\/10\/28\/microsoft_firstquarter\/\">under pressure from Yahoo and Google<\/a> has come up with what some see as a half-baked plan for the future of their software.  While the holes in Microsoft&#8217;s strategy may cause this latest effort to fail, the company&#8217;s tentacles stretch into every facet of our digital lives. (server, desktop, audio, video, gaming&#8230;) Now, they also want to make fixing flaws in their software a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft-watch.com\/article2\/0,1995,1747802,00.asp\">subscription service<\/a>.  However, the situation is more complex and potentially sinister.  Microsoft is paying a security team to develop fixes for security flaws anyway.  If MS charges a subscription fee, corporate customers will pay it just to ensure they are secure.  Those who can&#8217;t pay will be left with systems open to exploitation.  The exploited systems will be used by malicious individuals to attack other systems driving a continuing need for security services.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers become advertisers with Microsoft | The Register Microsoft, under pressure from Yahoo and Google has come up with what some see as a half-baked plan for the future of their software. While the holes in Microsoft&#8217;s strategy may cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/microsofts-grand-scheme-to-take-over-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}