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point taken but
This whole story isn't just forcing IT department to support all the backshop required to path MS products. An industry has oviously been built around sloppy MS programming and pathing subsequent released software and this is acceptable in todays world and has been worked into accounting IT budgets.

But that doesn't mean things can change and they are. No linux server runs a web brower but all MS servers are forced to because of their perceived loss of market share. So this is a forced product and further forced path work for each server. What's next? Are we all going to be forced to MS Office when Open Office takes even more market share?

Sure most software is patched after release but MS started this nightmare back in the early ninities and it has spread into a monthly path cycle, to be expected, and from your argument embraced as a natural occurence. It is not nor should it be considered normal, natural or tolerated.

It is up to the IT industry to get us all back on track. Why use a watered down, imitated version of Unix like Windows when you can have the real thing? DOS was after all created to mimc Unix. Windows Vista continues that. Linux is a true version of Unix, followed by the Mac OS/X (BSD).

Like all in IT know,
Mac OS/X for the desktop
Ubuntu 6.06.1 for the server

No other choice can 'free your mind', as they say.

Be good.
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Message has been deleted.  zzz1234567890 | 10/16/06
Sadly the detail often doesn't live up to the MS talk  Richard Flude | 10/16/06
Where is that clearly written?  DNSB | 10/17/06
I will NOT buy VISTA or any other M$ Product  DarbyOhara | 10/16/06
Thanks for the thought...  OwningXylophone | 10/17/06
Nobody cares  warawara | 10/17/06
I don't agree -  zoroaster | 10/17/06
Thanks for nothing  opensourcepro | 10/17/06
doesn't this remind you...  zoroaster | 10/17/06
Wow you guys completely missed the point!  rschror | 10/17/06
awesome..  redtrain65 | 10/17/06
Vista Snoozing  yagijd | 10/17/06
Great Feature!  DarthRidiculous | 10/17/06
totally out of touch  scole3@... | 10/17/06
There have been numerous patches ...  ShadeTree | 10/17/06
Both you and he are correct...in your own ways:)  Laff | 10/17/06
Actually, not as long as you might think  maldain | 10/17/06
catch up?  zoroaster | 10/17/06
The ineptitude is in the user  xuniL_z | 10/17/06
point taken but  scole3@... | 10/17/06
Setup WSUS on your network.  swoopee | 10/17/06
time to patch  deepee912 | 10/17/06
Really?  zkiwi | 10/17/06
Taking you at your word might I ask.....  Laff | 10/17/06
Takes me longer....  deepee912 | 10/17/06
Huh!?! Am I missing something here....that seems poinfully obvious.  Laff | 10/17/06
What MS patch is only 1 or 2 megs? Again, you lie!  nomorems | 10/17/06
Hmmm, what are you patching with that 1-2 meg patch?  maldain | 10/17/06
No way dude. What a freakin liar.  nomorems | 10/17/06
lol  xxn1927 | 10/17/06
oh sing it ...  scole3@... | 10/17/06
No virus'? Naw.  dayjm | 10/17/06
I have no AV or Spyware software on my Mac.  nomorems | 10/17/06
You are totally out of touch  rschror | 10/17/06
Another MSFT rep talking point  Chad_z | 10/17/06
This is new?  BitTwiddler | 10/17/06
MS & ZDNet Desperate  asad.quraishi@... | 10/17/06
Millions?  jasonp@... | 10/17/06
Basic Math  gsquared | 10/17/06
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nope....  JoeMama_z | 10/17/06
These are bios settings, not OS settings  deepee912 | 10/17/06
Yet another lie.  nomorems | 10/17/06
I remember...  nix_hed | 10/17/06
Microsoft is fishing again.......  linux for me | 10/17/06
Another reason to love Vista  xuniL_z | 10/17/06
Free support?  zkiwi | 10/17/06
Yes, free support  xuniL_z | 10/17/06
Ah, not the paid support then  zkiwi | 10/17/06
Sl;eep,service, and support  kbrown434 | 10/17/06
Mike Cox is that you?  maldain | 10/17/06
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Windows on Multi-core/Multi-CPU/Multi-Thread  gsquared | 10/17/06
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Vista  Keith.knutsson | 10/17/06
The not so helpful sleep feature  Badgered | 10/17/06
That setting is device specific  deepee912 | 10/17/06
What are you talking about?  annihilator4 | 10/21/06
Never too late  polythene | 10/17/06
Vista's snoozing  JohnLearner02 | 10/17/06
Gads man...  jskline0@... | 10/17/06
Vista snoozing  npchilds@... | 10/17/06
I love ZDnet !  hirez | 10/17/06
No Snooze is Good Snooze  OlDewd | 10/17/06
Sleep bad, Hibernate good.  nix_hed | 10/17/06
Here's a BRILLIANT thought...... shut the damn computer off...  shawkins | 10/17/06
Here Here!  rschror | 10/17/06
Vista and Sleep  dcheney8@... | 10/17/06
how....  JoeMama_z | 10/17/06
Vista  Jafrh | 10/17/06
Rubbish! ( What about the )  Sustainabilly | 10/17/06
WTF? Energy saver, anyone?  nomorems | 10/17/06
Vista - 50% more smoke and mirrors!  Chad_z | 10/17/06
or save money with Grid computing  dlmeyer@... | 10/17/06
Bold assumption...  techboy_z | 10/17/06
All you little home users can bash  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/17/06
Well...  zkiwi | 10/17/06
Good Point, but I don't think it was XP  rschror | 10/17/06
ROFL!  Chad_z | 10/17/06
this will get the interest of the enterprize.  hirez | 10/17/06
Cap'n Enterprise  Ole Man | 10/17/06
Reoly to yagijd: Vista Snoozing  LegendsOfBatman | 10/17/06
Well, you're one lucky mac user then  LegendsOfBatman | 10/17/06
Dang!  Reverend MacFellow | 10/17/06
macs are more expensive?  nix_hed | 10/17/06
macs are more expensive?  nix_hed | 10/17/06
beating god- another joker here!  hirez | 10/17/06
Um, no  ewelch | 10/17/06
What's the big deal?  zoroaster | 10/17/06
absolutely  rschror | 10/17/06
Now its a feature ?  SikosisZDNet | 10/17/06
"new feature" that as funny as mac ****!  hirez | 10/17/06
No Comment  Ole Man | 10/17/06
Vista- Snoozing since 2001  hirez | 10/17/06
But in television your  Sysop1984 | 10/17/06
WOW!!  pkrdk | 10/17/06
Utterly Lame!  marlinj@... | 10/19/06

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