Comments on: Microsoft forms its own RFID group

The software giant pulls together partners, including Accenture, into the Microsoft Radio Frequency Identification Council.

[Jonathan]

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Knowing the history of Microsoft I trust this initiative about as far as I can throw the Microsoft campus.
Rule #1 about dealing with the Redmond giant. Their reasons for doing ANYTHING almost always have an ulterior motive which usually ends up being to tie something so fully into Windows that it further binds users to the platform.

GAME OVER WE HAVE LOST.

GAME OVER WE HAVE LOST. HITLER LIVES IN AMERICA! RFID IS THE END OF US ALL HERE IN AMERICA!

GAME OVER WE HAVE LOST.

GAME OVER WE HAVE LOST. (10:59pm EST Sun Apr 11 2004)
YEAH! FIGHT! FIGHT RFID! FIGHT THE END OF FREEDOM AS WE KNOW IT! FIGHT THE MANGODS! DESTROY THE BEAST! DESTROY THE BEAST! DEATH TO THE BEAST! DEATH TO THE BEAST! GOD WILL PUNISH THE PARTICIPANTS! DESTROY THE BEAST! DESTROY THE END OF FREEDOM! NEVER LET THEM TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM! ITS TOO LATE ITS HERE. ITS NO USE. WE ARE ALL DEAD MEAT. NO ONE WOULD FIGHT. NO ONE KNEW HOW TO FIGHT. WE ALL EMBRACED THE TECHNOLOGY. WE WERE ALL TAKEN BY THE WONDER IT SPARKED IN US. HITLERS' DREAM IS ALIVE AND WE ARE ALL THE VICTIMS. WE ARE ALL SLAVES OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES. WE HAVE LOST. THERES NO TURNING BACK IT HAS GROWN TOO FAR AND I TRIED TO WARN EVERYONE BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN. NO ONE BELIEVED ME. AND TOMORROW WHEN WE WAKE UP THE GROUND WILL SPARKLE WITH THE NEW WAY OF LIFE AND OUR CHIDREN WILL BE PROTECTED MOMENTARILY BY THE EVIL THAT HAS BEEN PLACED INSIDE THEM, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEIR BODIES WILL ROT BECAUSE THEIR SOUL HAS HAD THE ULTIMATE PROGRAMMING. THE MARK OF THE BEAST. THERE'S NO BACKING OUT. AND WE HAVE TERRORISM TO THANK FOR ITS PROSPERITY. FIGHT TO THE DEATH OR JUMP IN THE MOUTH OF HELL. THESE ARE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVES. BUT WHO WILL LISTEN? - by OUTSIDER