European Commission drinks too much...

First the Media Player noise, now it's the Vista's Firewall time: the European Commission seems never stop its delirium.

In these days they're out with a new story: the new security features embedded on Vista, expecially the new Firewall, is a violation of the antitrust regulations.

But who works on the European Commission? Who is the great mind source of these ideas? Is an embedded firewall an abuse or (maybe) an attention to the end-user security?

I'm shocked to be an european and to have such a commission that "represent" us.

Is it possible a delay on Vista's release time in Europe due to this stupid folks? I hope this will never happen, otherwise they will have to buy a Firewall to protect themself against tons of emails that they will receive from their "satisfied" european Windows users...

Print | posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 11:25 AM

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Try to ask a personal opinion to someone who "lives" developing and selling a firewall.
May be you will understand what anti-trust means...
Left by Matteo on Sep 18, 2006 3:02 PM

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I know that someone can be worried about this, but I don't think that someone can stop Microsoft on embedding a firewall on Vista. This is a security feature that we MUST HAVE! Next, if someone will need a more robust firewall, he can go on another direction.
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Sep 18, 2006 3:06 PM

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For sure we need a Firewall. And Microsoft is so philanthropic that will give it us for free!
But embedding it in the OS is (so clearly!) abuse of dominant position. Why they simply don't make a free download available?
Left by Matteo on Sep 18, 2006 3:28 PM

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The abuse of dominant position is always the same story against Microsoft
I don't think that the Vista Firewall will be a big competitor for who earns by producing real-world firewalls, but it will be an important "plus" to have embedded into the OS, expecially for users that, otherwise, will never have a firewall on their home machine. You know for sure that lots of big "problems" on the net today comes from unprotected machine However, it's only my modest opinion...
P.S. I've seen that you've interesting posts on the CRM field. Don't stop them
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Sep 18, 2006 6:06 PM

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Yes I'm in the Microsoft-sphere too, on CRM theese months. I'm going deeply examining filtered views, but... in few days my holidays will begin. I will post my analysis' results in November.

And, for that never-ending-story, do you remeber Netscape?
Left by Matteo on Sep 19, 2006 10:05 PM

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