With all this talk of net neutrality and AT&T’s recent concessions is it possible a much greater net neutrality problem will come not from Texas based AT&T but Redmond’s Microsoft. According to Scott Cleland and the Wall Street Journal, there is huge potential for web discrimination against small companies when using Microsoft’s Vista operating system.

 

You see the browser has software to spot phishers and the system does not classify over 20 million legitimate small businesses as “phish free” so they have deployed a guilty until proven innocent model.

 

In my view this is not an intentional way to stop small companies from being successful as this blog entry suggests.

 

Still the effects of this filter could be disastrous to small business and I suppose Microsoft will be forced to deal with this problem in some way soon before this becomes a media fiasco rivaling Ferrari laptopgate.