A Genuine Advantage

A few days back I received my usual Windows Secrets email newsletter from Brian Livingston. It has a most interesting and alarming, but not surprising, article. You can read it here on the web also. http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/

Click the link above then scroll down to the article titled "Genuine Advantage is Microsoft Spyware". These writers are some of the most trusted preeminent Windoze experts of the day.

I also read a news piece, just days ago, about the approaching retirement of Bill Gates from MicroShaft. The story was replete with named executives that are to slip into various positions. And there was a whole bunch of hoop de doo about the Melinda Gates Foundation and the work Billiam plans to do there in his retirement from MicroShaft, and all the cash that has already flowed from there for various social engineering efforts.

Nobody seems to get the idea that just because Bill Gates has the brass kahoonas to do something outrageous, that we should let him get away with it. Once a line is crossed, the infringement just continues to creep, and creep, and creep, until the frog boils to death without complaining. I'm awaiting the AOL, Microsoft, Walmart, Pat Robertson, and Shiite Muslim merger to form and butt heads with the Communist China-North Korea consortia. All the Linux geeks will move to northern Europe, western Canada, southern Australia, New Zealand, and the southern tip of South America, to watch the two mega-powers nuke the earth in half across the equator.

I'm not trying to supplant the book of Revelation. I'm just saying that if anyone thinks that Bill Gates' retirement as Chief whip slasher at MicroShaft, to go into full time philanthropy at his Bill and Melinda Social Engineering Organization, is an equivalent of an enlightened and new heart for Bill that will now only think soft, pure, and kind toward your fellow man thoughts, then you better wake up from your fanciful dream. I think the strategy is that with the forays into violating personal privacy and social engineering that MicroShaft has been and likely will be into over the next few years, it was thought better that a new kinder gentler MicroShaft will sell easier without the well known, cold, calculating, icy, hand of Gates on the tiller.

Look for the new warm fuzzy MicroShaft imaging efforts soon after Bill's departure, if not before. Meanwhile, Bill will be sold as the newest celibate initiated monk into the monastery of foundationalism. There he will be cleansed before he returns to MicroShaft... But will he ever? As a major voting shareholder, does he really ever have to? Isn't this whole departure thing just so much image positioning and little else? Isn't it a bit like saying that when George Bush is vacationing on his ranch in Texas that he's not the president and whatever happens during that time at the White House isn't his doing? (recognize the spin strategy?)

But hey, what skin off my teeth is it if Bill Gates wants to call himself retired? I'm sure there must be a "Genuine Advantage" for Microsoft in it somewhere. As for the rest of us, we must find our genuine advantages where we can. I find mine from a point of view, beneath the Carolina moon.