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Microsoft's Velvet Glove
Mark Burnett, 2005-01-31

Redmond's plan to make you install Windows authentication software before downloading vital security patches is a reasonable and gentle effort to limit piracy.

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> I want them all to use every LEGAL means
> available to increase the value of my stock.
> I am, after all, part owner.

So I take it that you instituted appropriate measures at Microsft's stockholder meetings to ensure that the individuals responsible for Microsoft's illegal business tactics were brought to account for their actions.

No, I didn't think so.

> Microsoft stock is held by literally
> hundreds of million of people world-wide.

Care to back that statement with something approaching facts? And no, holdings via a mutual fund don't count, because with mutual fund holdings no voting right is attached, hence no "holding".

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