{"id":102,"date":"2006-05-19T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:36:07","slug":"symantec-sues-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Sues Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">And the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-6074055.html\">hits<\/a> keep coming. I am sure this is part of the \u201cwave of innovation\u201d that Ballmer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed-electronics.com\/electronicnews\/article\/CA6316594.html\">spoke<\/a> about. Microsoft couldn&#8217;t innovate their way out of a paper bag.  Everything they have has been bought, borrowed or stolen.  The fact that they have paid over $3 Billion settling lawsuits despite having the best lawyers money can buy, ought to tell you something. In any case that word is so overused in the Tech circles these days that it has lost all meaning.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I am not na\u00efve enough to think that this has nothing to do with Microsoft\u2019s recent foray into the security business. Frankly, I think these two deserve each other. Throw in SCO into the mix; let them all litigate each other to death, and the computing world will be a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the hits keep coming. I am sure this is part of the \u201cwave of innovation\u201d that Ballmer spoke about. Microsoft couldn&#8217;t innovate their way out of a paper bag. Everything they have has been bought, borrowed or stolen. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}