Italy seems to have escaped recently, as did New Zealand (Microsoft DRM backfiring). It’s a global things which Groklaw too highlights at time. Microsoft really, really wants to dominate media (steal online video from Google, music from Apple, IPTV from everyone). Silverbullet is part of this dangerous scam and represents a vector that’s Web based and thus harder to escape and avoid.

As a group, they have a history of promoting the MSFT agenda even to the direct harm of their new employers and, in some cases, countries.

While we’re on the example of Finland, which is far from alone in this wave of white-collar crime, we see that the head of Finnish broad casting came directly from MSFT. Note that, according to his CV, he is not even in the same league as the many highly skilled and experienced candidates that were passed over for the position. Under his tenure, YLE’s webcasting has gone from being platform independent to being fully locked into MSFTianism. Also the transition from analog to digital broadcast television has been such a fiasco that questions are being raised if it is done on purpose in order to promote investment in TV over IP instead — which is locked into … guess who?