Oh, yet more of Me$$y$oft shooting itself in the foot: Me$$y$oft has touted Vista’s “security advantages” and advances (Yeh, photographers and video editors need to watch out there for Me$$y$oft’s DRM straightjacketting), but had to issue security patches almost as soon as the rollout of Vista hit the stores, AND Me$$y$oft’s OneCare product just came in dead last among 10 anti-virus products from kajor players.

Not surprising. Me$$y$oft took a moderately capable anti-spyware product from Giant and, as usual for Me$$y$oft, proceded to screw it up with mission creap add-ons, including a particularly UNcapable anti-virus engine/def-set. Typical for the company that screwed up Front Page and other softwares bought elsewhere.

But then, that seems pretty typical overall: big software company gobbles up capable small competitor and screws up the flagship product of the small competitor.

As for Me$$y$oft creating incompatibility with customers’/endusers’ existing software, nothing new to see. Par for the course. Of course, Apple’s no shining example. See the upgrade headaches fols had when OS X rolled out. backward compatibility? No such thing in the Apple world for pre-OS X apps. Screw ‘em. We’re Apple. *heh* And when a recent security hole was discovered in Quicktime? Screw 90%++ of Quicktime users (Windows users). Mac users got a smoothe patch process. Windows users got a notice that they had the most up-to-date Quicktime… even when their version was insecure and unpatched. And the patch process for those who pursued it vigorously often didn’t take without multiple repatches.

(Rotten)Apple, Me$$y$oft: about as much difference between ‘em as between the Democrappic Party and the Republican’t Party, that is, not a dime’s difference.

YMMV, of course.