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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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Microsoft's Velvet Glove 2005-02-04
Anonymous
You're using the wrong analogy, I think.

I see this more as a "stealing off the lot but helping the police catch the thief before he blows through an intersection and collides with an innocent pedestrian".

Microsoft may not have a desire or even a responsibility to keep pirates patched, but th...

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