[Amalie]

Tinfoil hat or not, what you lay is certainly logical. However, like all inventors, Microsoft wants to maintain its proprietary technology and secrets in-house. The term 'inherently insecure' sums up what happens when those protocols are made available to anyone; they can impact every single computer owner. I personally am happier having a secure product then open competition with greater risk.

Perhaps the way out of this is for Microsoft to develop a simple freeware operating system that outside users will need to build their own security protocols into; the MS 'premium' product retains its place, and the crybabies will have to shut up...

[EricT.]

Perhaps the way out of this is for Microsoft to develop a simple freeware operating system...

They could always re-release Windows 98 as freeware. They might as well, with so many pirated copies of it floating around.