Comments on: Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech

Lawsuit charges misappropriation of intellectual property, breach of contract over data storage technology.

[robot999]

Seems...

as if M$ is unable to develop any really good software on their own.
They have to copy/rip everybody else's work to "compete". It
started with them ripping the MAC interface, and now this. I
predict the M$ will continue the slide into obsolescence, and be
non-relevent in less than a decade. Open source will kill them.
If they were smart they'd focus on X-box.

[Stalin Hornsby]

Discloser; invalid Symatics entry trash.sym into my NTF with MSFT mainfr

I was just in for the Beata portion of Vista; Blake had nothing to do with it I was a lone hacker to install this bookmark repair to the Symantic software from Symantec's website.

[darkr]

double check your facts

apple didn't create the GUI or the mouse so they claim. osx owes alot to bsd (real memory management not the set memory leaks) and windows (taskbar) and even os-2 (docking bar)
OFFIce is a really good software they did
and apple has yet to do anything on their own as far as complete office apps goes (iworks was a drivitive of open office and neo office)
it was borrowed from a parc xerox which was a research company that was developing new interfaces including gui and the mouse. Which steve jobs visited and saw a demo of (mouse and gui)

they later tried to enter the pc market with the altair

[rmiecznik]

If they were smart

They would make some of the open source technologies available in their OS like Apple did with the kernel and Apache and other things.

But MS thinks that they can re-invent the wheel all the time, and that stuborness will eventually kill them.

Plus they still develop weak operating systems, esspecially the desktop.

[billbrown123]

Seems to me ...

It seems that Symantec is worried about the security features in Vista. There would be no use for them if Vista stopped and cleaned viruses, spam, malware, etc. on it's own.

[MacVet]

It's STORAGE, not SECURITY

Although you may know Symantec mostly for its security
products, this issue is not about security at all-- it's about
storage technology that Symantec acquired as part of its
acquisition of Veritas. That's a whole different technology stack!

Anyhow, who in the world would worry about MS competing with
them on **security**? ! ? ! ? ! ? !

[shusseina]

I would not be surprised

I would not be surprised if Microsoft used the some strategy which Symantec is accusing them of to acquire Mac OS X secrets for use in Windows Vista. With Microsoft buying Virtual PC software for the Mac I'm sure they also acquired intimidate details of the Mac OS X operating system which they could use to enhance Windows. The graphics ability of Mac OS X has been/is far more capable than any Windows OS, that is until Windows Vista arrives. What other interest has Microsoft got in developing Virtual PC for the Mac?

[shusseina]

Correction to comment...

That should read "I would not be surprised if Microsoft used the SAME strategy..."

[mortis9]

You're spewing nonsense

Every company stands upon the shoulders of those they can. Apple is by and far not an exception to this rule. Apple doesn't develop new products, they improve on existing products, making them "cool" again. As for the graphics ability of OSX vs Vista, there isn't a contest. OSX is far inferior in this regard. Mac has long been the platform of choice for amatuer Video/Photo editing, but this is do to the hardware they used; with the shift to Intel chips, their hardware lead is effectively gone. Additionally, most professional video/photo manipulation and graphics rendering utilizes hardware never available to the Mac platform.

[georgescott]

Microsoft & Macs

Microsoft has always made software for Macs and has had intimate details, consider Microsoft Office they obviously had been developing that before they bought Virtual PC. Go to http://www.folklore.org and do a search on "Bill Gates". It is facinating stuff.

[Maccess]

Uh-oh...another $1Bln out the window?

You would think Microsoft's managers would be more cautious with their cash hoard, instead of continuing to do things that could result in potentially costly IP suits.

$4Bln so far in infringement settlements. I wonder what the shareholders have to say.