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• Ballmer weeps for Windows

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/05/ballmer_weeps_for_windows_video/
  Microsoft releases video clip of Steve Ballmer in court, explaining how they are the real victims.

• Compulsory Windows: for Macs, and people without PCs?

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/14/compulsory_windows_for_macs/
  Microsoft wants your schools to buy software they can't use.

• Dead People Rise in Support of Microsoft

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/24/dead_people_rise_in_support/
  Seems there is spare time to write your congressman from the grave.

• EU may fine Microsoft

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1590919.stm
  The European Commission may fine Microsoft up to $2.5bn (£1.75bn) but says its investigation is still at an early stage.

• EU to fine Microsoft

  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/mar/23/lifeonlineaguidetotheinternet.microsoft
  Finds that Microsoft had abused its Windows monopoly, harming consumers and competitors, and is expected to fine an unprecedented amount. [Guardian]

• Halloween VII: Survey Says

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween7.html
  MS admits its Linux-bashing is a failure. Most polled found the MS FUD offensive, one third want OSS because it isn't made by Microsoft.

• How NSA access was built into Windows

  http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html
  Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.

• Lobbying for insecurity

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/30/lobbying_for_insecurity/
  Keeping secure software out of the hands of users.

• Microsoft Financial Critique

  http://www.billparish.com/20000222fraudfactsupdate.html
  Bill Parish's view on how Microsoft uses stock options to raise revenue, taking advantage of its size and cash to manipulate the value of firms it wants to own or harm.

• Microsoft Financial Fraud

  http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html
  Alleges that fraudulent accounting at Microsoft constitutes "the greatest financial fraud/pyramid scheme this century", and could have widespread economic repurcussions even setting aside the huge ramifications of the antitrust trials.

• Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/10/microsoft_winds_up_on_both/
  The people who invented the term "software piracy" guilty of same.

• MS fights Open Source with Freebies - An Eyewitness Writes

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/10/ms_fights_open_source/
  How important is market share? They give away software to keep it.

• MS plays volume licensing upgrade card against Naked PCs

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/27/ms_plays_volume_licensing_upgrade/
  Volume licensing programs are only an upgrade? How to sell your product once, and get paid twice.

• MS preps all-new warez busting antitrust complying XP SP1

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/24/ms_preps_allnew_warez_busting/
  How to get around a punishment that hasn't even happened yet.

• MS soft-pedals SSL hole

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/16/ms_softpedals_ssl_hole/
  Trustworthy computing in action: Don't worry about our missing security.

• MS to micro-manage your computer

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/24/ms_to_micromanage_your_computer/
  How to trust your digital life to Microsoft in one easy step.

• Namibia Wisely Spurns MS 'Gift' in Favor of Linux

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/31/namibia_wisely_spurns_m_gift/
  For just thirty thousand dollars, small African country can get $2000 in software.

• Register: Preinstalled Windows: AARGH! I can't get it off!

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/30/preinstalled_windows_aargh_i_cant/
  Microsoft site claims Windows can't be legally removed once installed?

• Removing IE would kill Win2k, WinXP

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/04/removing_ie_would_kill_win2k/
  Haven't we heard that one before?

• The new EULA

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/30/ms_security_patch_eula_gives/
  MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box.

• The Register: Justice Chief Queried over MS Campaign Contributions

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/15/justice_chief_queried_over_ms/
  Why has Attorney General John Ashcroft not disqualified himself from participation in settlement talks in the Microsoft case?

• Windows Costs Less Than Linux. A bit. Sometimes - MS study

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/12/03/windows_costs_less_than_linux/
  Microsoft spins TCO to battle Linux.

• Windows Messenger 'Trojan update'

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04/02/windows_messenger_trojan_update/
  The Register reports on a 'Critical Update' from Microsoft that forceably installs Windows Messenger even if you have already removed it from XP.

• Windows Ruling is Biggest IP Heist in EU History, Claims MS

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/24/windows_ruling_is_biggest_ip/
  Looks at EU's order to remove Media Player from Windows from a Microsoft lawyer's perspective. [The Register]

 

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