MS doesn't support its own software/hardware

Got a Microsoft LiveCam for my Win XP x64.

Downloaded and installed the 64bits driver for it. Video come out... blank/black.

So I uninstalled.

Tried Windows Update. It can't detect this piece of.. hardware.

Never, try to go back to the .exe installer, maybe it will work with some IM client even if the default video viewer is not working.

No luck.

Nevermind, pressed the button on the webcam and it activates... MSN Live Messenger! 

Opps... no support on 64bit OS for MSN Live suite (messenger, mail, photo, etc).

Guess Microsoft is not interested on supporting its own OSes.. maybe Linux will have better support. LOL! 

Torvalds on Microsoft's patent bluff

I have argued a few times with my friend (who is an MVP for Microsoft) over the position/perception of Microsoft, is it a monopoly? a big friendly giant? or what? He is more exposed to the technical folks who (mainly) talk about technologies and so on, and he has failed to see the legal, and business side of the games Microsoft plays.

I told him that yes, there may be nice, friendly peeps there at MS, but there are also people who has nothing to do but spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) and people who play games on both sides.

In this article published by Linuxworld, Torvalds remarked that

"I think there are people inside Microsoft who really want to improve interoperability and I also think there are people inside Microsoft who would much rather just try to stab their competition in the back," he said. "I think the latter class of people have usually been the one[s] who won out in the end, but -- so I wouldn't exactly trust them."

Me neither. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer :P