Microsoft copying Apple again
The story seems to start when Engadget and a few other sites, like Neowin and blink.nu posted some screenshots of the upcoming Windows Mobile 2005. Microsoft sent out the usual cease & desists, which is actually unusual for them, but that's what happened.
Where it turns really weird, is that Engadget was apparently able to cobble together a deal with Microsoft where they got permission to keep their sneak peak images and such up, and they were all over the forums in any case. Dave's Ipaq saw that they were everywhere, and saw that endgadget was able to carry them, so didn't see any reason why he shouldn't be able to carry the leaked snaps if everyone else was, so he did so, and is now having fun legal threatenings being turned his way. Lovely, stupid stuff.
*shrugs* If you're going to try to start assaulting and dismantling the community around your products, at least don't do it half-assed. Apple waited several years before they started their on blitzkrieg the community, but they did it right and in a fairly total fashion. Going by past history, Microsoft will probably need a few tries.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 30, 2005, at 07:15 PM
Comments (3)
Posted by: Dave at January 30, 2005 08:34 PM
Thanks for posting this! As much coverage the better off this mess is!
Posted by: Chris at January 30, 2005 11:19 PM
Either way, companies don't like to give out their sekrets. Well, unless they get some form of benefit out of it
But I thought the advantage of a Windows world was that one could pick & choose one's components?