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Re: Wannacry About Business Models

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It doesn't seem to me that the is trying to paint microsoft as a victim. IT even says they are partially) to blame because of their poor security design. The article suggested that most software should be delivered as a service, so that it would more directly connect the economic incentives with the bug fixing. Then they pointed out how this would have helped everyone involved in this one specific case.

Exactly. The article isn't excusing Microsoft. But it's also arguing for a subscription model that aligns incentives.

Align incentives...

That is a powerfully simple way to think about, I am going to mull that thought of. But yes, at least superficially, it puts customer and vendor on the same track.

I wonder if there are ways it could be abused? Of course there are, we just haven't found them all yet.

Re: Wannacry About Business Models

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Enterprise apps live for a long time. IBM stuff in production is still around from the 1970s. Microsoft actively pursued (and screwed) this market.

IBM stuff that survives from the 70s does so because those organizations planned their future hardware and software migrations. z/OS releases are supported for 3 years after release. You then have to update to the N+1 or N+2 version. Windows releases are supported for 11 years. You then have to pay for extended support or update. This has always been the case. This is well known. If you're running an internet connect…

That's the PR.

Lots of that software is old junk. IBM supports at the OS level applications written in whatever technology was around in 1978 today.

If you wrote your core business application in VB6 or an early .Net Framework, Microsoft cut you off at the knees.

Re: Wannacry About Business Models

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What do you mean by forced? Logically Microsoft should decide ahead of time how long they are going to support a given version and publish this information so that potential buyers can decide whether its sufficient before buying. They do this, and you can read online how long they intend to support the software you are buying today.

You mean, do something like this? [0] [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...

You made a footnote for one line?
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