Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/07/microsoft-buys-corp-com-domai.html
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Sorry the hear this. I don’t like domain squatters.
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In a written statement, Microsoft said it acquired the domain to protect its customers
Probably true.
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The domain Corp.com is similar to an internal address used by Windows servers
Capital-c? … Why?
In other news, Windows is still a bloated pile of insecurities and zero-day exploits.
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True, but one less is still one less.
20 years ago who would have thought that in 2020 we would be more worried about “Do no evil” Google than greedy browser-buster Bill Gates and Microsoft?
But I take this as good news…if Facebook had bought the site I’d be really worried.
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Oh thank goodness, I thought they had snapped up my favourite carp-fishing forum!
https://www.carp.com/
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Google’s evil is still pretty hypothetical. They could do something ugly with their terrible and wreckless power, but they don’t. They are a corporation, so they have normal corporation faults, but are otherwise fine. They wield a terrifying amount of power and mostly don’t do anything bad with it. Sometimes they spend their money on cool stuff like autonomous cars.
I feel as far as evil corporate overlords go, Google is fine. If I had to pick a random likely evil corporation overlord out of a hat (Walmart, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Uber, FoxNews, Disney, Facebook, Twitter, Boeing, McDonalds, etc), and I got Google, and they told me I could pick another, but I have to keep it whatever it is, I’d stick with Google without a second thought.
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Microsoft prevents Domain of Danger from falling into miscreants’ paws by forking out cash for corp.com
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