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Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm
[Microsoft] Posted by michael on Wednesday April 10, @11:33PM
from the partly-sunny dept.
Dephex Twin writes "According to a NYTimes article: due to lack of 3rd-party support for Microsoft's "Persona" (originally codenamed "Hailstorm"), the company has been forced to dump the project. It seems the companies didn't like having a middleman between them and the consumers. As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief."

I hate to just directly rip off a post from Slashdot, but this one is way too important to miss. Remember a lot of the fear of sticking all your shopping and personal information on one central Microsoft server, and how much that would blow for users? Well, the companies realized it would also blow for them, and most of them told MS to shove Hailstorm up their ass.

Just another reason to use Open Source Software. You can reproduce all the functionality Microsoft proposes with Linux, Apache, SQL, Perl and Java. All open source, all more flexible and powerful that MS's individual components, and you don't have to sign your life and business away to Microsoft.

Slashdot pointed to a story which posed the question as to whether software should expire. Now, I'm not advocating any kind of Internet scrubbing here, but could we be paying a higher psychological price than we can possibly understand simply because bad design sticks around forever? It's my high school paper. Somewhere in there is a story about a few of my friends getting expelled. Don't go looking for it though, you would probably go blind first.

Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD
To add insult to injury, they'd moved their servers to Win2K by the time I'd read the article, but when I tried to reach WeHaveTheWayOut, I saw only this:

No web site is configured at this address.