Microsoft a target
MikeDYur
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Putin wants to rid the country of such name's
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/putin-wants-push-microsoft-out-russia-battle-us-n674781
EDIT: Fixed it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/putin-wants-push-microsoft-out-russia-battle-us-n674781
EDIT: Fixed it.
Comments
http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/fortochka/
If you are a government of a country of course you need control.
Increasingly that control is exercised through software.
That means you need control of the software you are using. The last thing you want is a "black box" supplied from some company in another country over which you have no control.
Or let's put this another, economic, way:
Why are we paying huge piles of money to some other country to do what we can do for ourselves?
Those canny Indian guys are taking this one step further. Why do we need to buy processors from the Yankee Intel when we can make our own? Google RISC V for the story.
In short. We out here do not trust the USA or any of it's operatives anymore.
Sad but true.
Sad to here that things have deteriorated that much since WWII, we were great allies.
Somewhere in Russia, there's an ercosky who's REALLY upset, even if Win10 was free.
By the way Win10 is not free. As in actual money. Or any other way.
The lure of the PC and the internet was that we humans get control. As opposed to the centralized systems of old.
We have failed.
I was about to mention, theres always linux..
BUT....
They better hire 50k software engineers, and even then they will only have as good a software as windows is...
Which we all know it has 'issues'.
I don't think they even HAVE 50k software engineers capable of doing that level of OS engineering available in their work pool.
Let alone the money to pay them.
Talk is cheap, actual action is expensive.
@Clock Loop, Who is this "they" of which you speak?
I presume you mean the Russians. But "They" is us. "They" is also a cooperation a between a multitude of companies, institutions and even counties, large and small. From Google downwards. Even MS makes Open Source software and supports Linux now.
From the article linked in the opening post:
"U.S. intelligence officials also believe that any attempt to ban Microsoft will be limited because its products are too integrated into Russia's IT infrastructure."
That right there is a situation any government in it's right mind would want to fix. It's insane to have you entire state beholden to some company in a foreign country over which you have no control.
I felt that way a number of years ago when I was forced to seek tech support for some Windows version. Between the comunation difficulties and being guided to go through processes I had already tried, nothing got solved there. The impression I got back then was the company was out of touch with its base.
OTOH, if I were Ivan Average, keyboard monkey, I'd have a lot less to fear from MS than from Vladimir Putin.
But, yeah, Ivan Average should be more worried about Putin than MS.
But then, a huge proportion of average Ivans think that Stalin was a good guy, a hero.
The corollary is true in the US, too. That is why MS keeps reassuring us that they absolutely do not share data mining results with the government. I'm perfectly confident that MS doesn't give a flying fig about me.
A lot has changed since then... now they don't seem to care either
Same thing with my desktop that was automatically downgraded to W10 one night. A month or so later it started acting up. Blue screen of death, work lost to intermittent reboots, software that worked perfectly under W7 locking up and loosing hours of work, and unable to use it at times due to updates.
Upgraded the desktop back to W7 a week back and have not had a single problem since.
My beef was never so much about the technical merits of MS operating systems and software, more about the disaster that is the whole world becoming dependent on a single platform and closed file formats etc.
Thanks to NoScript, my Win7 machines avoided this fate.
I'm sure that Gregg Microsystems' "Gatekeeper" software can universally undo any damage done by Microsoft.
The best way to teach young people how operating systems work is to give them an "important" job... tell them to go build a new one. At worst what happens is that you get a new generation of Windows experts.
Let's say that a concerted cyber attack was being waged against Russia... an entire world of experts would be available to help. If Russia were to monotonically move to its own operating system... they would be completely alone: not good for anyone.
Who is most likely to attack us?...us. Who is most likely to attack them?... them.
It is what us and them have most in common.
The wise thing to do is to embrace Linux and Free and Open Source software. Use it, enhance it, contribute to it. Be part of the world wide conversation and developments on "cyber security". And all things technical for that matter.
That would be a far more efficient approach. You get more out than you put in when you cooperate with such things.
But I guess they are intertwined with Windows and wondering what to do. Shoveling money out of the country for that is obviously stupid. Especially as you have no say in what the product is.