Ensuring that one’s costumer base remains loyal, also known as lock-in, is an important part of many software and hardware manufacturers’ business plan. Recently, I came across an especially displeasing example of sneaky and subtle customer lock-in strategy from our friends at Microsoft.
Sneaky Cat is Sneaky
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C, C99, Life in the workplace, Operating System, Portable Code, programming | Tagged: best practices, C Standard Library, Costumer Lock-in, legacy software, Lock-in, memcpy, memcpy_s, memmove, memmove_s, memory.h, sneaky, sneaky bastards, Standard libary, string.h, wd4996, Windows, _CRT_SECURE_DEPRECATE_MEMORY | 
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Posted by Steven Pigeon
