Conspiracy theory.... Microsoft vs Yahoo

[darkrose0510]

Just something I was thinking of the other day while chatting to some friends on Yahoo messenger... everyone with a windows machine was constantly dropping out. It has happened a number of times, with different people over the last few months; only windows users are affected though...

So, do you think ms could be sabotaging yahoo to get them to sell?

[GNU-Fan]

Of course not. Everybody knows it's the other way around: Yahoo harasses Windows users.

[bigtomrodney]

What were the other machines? And what clients were they using. I'm not sure that the other clients even report their operating system, or at least report them correctly.

[carlosponti]

i am on windows at work and use pidgin for im with yahoo msn and aol accounts and never notice dropouts. occasionally from the msn maybe but not yahoo.

[questio verum]

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So, do you think ms could be sabotaging yahoo to get them to sell?

While I hold Microsoft far from harmless in most matters, I don't think they're the responsible party here. The last time I checked the stats, IM w
as the mechanism of choice for distributing malware.

I think in this case, if MS is guilty of anything, it's of releasing insecure operating systems.

Also... though I can't verify it through personal experience, I've been told that script kiddies like to hang out on IM, where their exploits are more likely to impress a less-informed demographic.


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