Ryan's Currently Unnamed Blog

Seems to me that Paris Hilton and Microsoft have a lot in common. I'm certainly not big fans of either, but they at least provide a little bit of humor.

By now, I'm sure you have heard of the numerous stories about Paris Hilton's Sidekick being hacked. We all know Microsoft's long history of being hacked and slashed, and we know this isn't the first run in for poor Ms. Hilton.

But how much of this is them bringing it upon themselves? On one hand, Paris seems willing to do anything to get herself out in the public eye and land any kind of acting (sic), singing (sic), and/or modeling (ok, she can take decent pictures) career. Microsoft is trying to do whatever it can to break into any other market it can. Xbox, UltimateTV, Microsoft Hardware, MSN, Windows Mobile... just to name a few. They like to take perfectly good standards and break them and make their version the de facto standard. Not bad for the little software company that could.

And they both paint big huge fat targets on themselves. Microsoft likes to fund people to make their competitors look bad. They like to file patents for everything under the sun and then sue people who try to innovate. And, lets not forget about the crappy software they write and all of the security nightmares that creates. Paris, doesn't fare much better. It almost seems like she does things on purpose to provide fodder for Leno or Conan or for Water Cooler Chatter. The dumb blonde bit has been done before and its quite old. But then again, maybe it isn't a bit.

Both seem to have trouble learning from their mistakes. Microsoft's doing everything it can to keep people from stealing their software to spite their paying customers. Paris has countless sex tapes floating around. What would make her take more pictures of herself, and have them accessible online via her TMobile account? Anything that requires a simple username and password IS NOT secure. Nevermind that just about any TMobile employee can probably get at her account and view whatever they want.

And the pity in all of this is that it hurts more then them. For Paris, this time it hurts other celebs, but Microsoft is far worse... because every time it hurts all of us.