{"id":5138,"date":"2007-01-03T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/microsoft-to-trump-ferrari-laptopgate.html"},"modified":"2007-01-03T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T10:05:48","slug":"microsoft-to-trump-ferrari-laptopgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/microsoft-to-trump-ferrari-laptopgate.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to Trump Ferrari Laptopgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" width=\"300\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.3dmodelworks.com\/models\/thumb\/Alb\/FerrariEnzo\/ferrary_enzo.jpg\" \/>With all this talk of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/01\/02\/2204678.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">net neutrality and AT&amp;T&rsquo;s recent concessions<\/font><\/a> is it possible a much greater net neutrality problem will come not from Texas based AT&amp;T but Redmond&rsquo;s Microsoft. According to Scott Cleland and the Wall Street Journal, there is huge potential for web discrimination against small companies when using Microsoft&rsquo;s Vista operating system.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">You see the browser has software to spot phishers and the system does not classify over 20 million legitimate small businesses as &ldquo;phish free&rdquo; so they have deployed a guilty until proven innocent model.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In my view this is not an intentional way to stop small companies from being successful as this <font color=\"#800080\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warm-upf1.com\/catalog\/images\/ferrarilaptop.jpg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precursorblog.com\/node\/248\">blog entry<\/a><\/font> suggests.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&amp;rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-36%2CGGLJ%3Aen&amp;q=blogger+microsoft+ferrari\"><font color=\"#800080\">Ferrari laptopgate<\/font><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all this talk of net neutrality and AT&amp;T&rsquo;s recent concessions is it possible a much greater net neutrality problem will come not from Texas based AT&amp;T but Redmond&rsquo;s Microsoft. According to Scott Cleland and the Wall Street Journal, there is huge potential for web discrimination against small companies when using Microsoft&rsquo;s Vista operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}