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Linux deployments affect you more than you realize. But that is another topic. As far as why do I care? Simple really, even though I am a Linux user, I am still forced to use Microsoft at work. Personally I hate XP. I think it's about the worst piece of crud to come out of Redmond. Another reason, every Microsoft machine that connects to the internet poses a security risk, with longhorn that risk is perported to be mitigated by better security.

Everytime a massive worm or virus strikes the Microsoft community, I, and every other net user, have to pay with reduced bandwidth while people are out there cleaning the mess. Then there is the downtime when current systems fail (security again...) at work.

So yes I care. I care to see Microsoft actually do something right and clean their mess up. Becuase it affects all netizens.
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Exscuses  Linux User 147560 | 07/14/04
Excuses  Loverock Davidson | 07/14/04
Yet you complain about price  Biggs_z | 07/14/04
Actually  Linux User 147560 | 07/14/04
Do the honorable thing  seosamh_z | 07/14/04
Right  Jeff Spicoli | 07/14/04
Sounds like a wonderful  Linux User 147560 | 07/14/04
It'll still take the same number of man hours  Michael Kelly | 07/14/04
Actually, it doesn't  IT_User | 07/14/04
I think that was what I was trying to get at  Michael Kelly | 07/14/04
Small correction  michael-t | 07/14/04
MONTH  IT_User | 07/15/04
NO!  michael-t | 07/14/04
Lemme see, they've 90% NET margins  mvaar | 07/14/04
I wonder if...  Yen_z | 07/14/04
The way I heard it  Linux User 147560 | 07/14/04
There are a lot of reports to that effect.  B.O.F.H. | 07/14/04
Whatever you cannot defeat  michael-t | 07/14/04
UNIX on windows  michael-t | 07/14/04
They are waiting...  rbochan | 07/14/04
Adding more programmers to a late project, makes it even later.  DonnieBoy | 07/14/04
So IBM thought too in 1969  michael-t | 07/14/04
Even more painful ?  mvaar | 07/14/04
So much for Software Assurance  robertlelonek@... | 07/14/04
A good idea  Michael Kelly | 07/14/04
I NEED THE SOFTWARE...  Mike Cox | 07/14/04
9.4..... My kids love you Mike and my ex wants to have your baby  Squawkbox | 07/14/04
Hey Mikey  TWRX | 07/14/04
All the kings money and all the kings men couldn't put Windows together aga  DonnieBoy | 07/14/04
the good and the bad:  ryusen | 07/14/04
But you know they can't do that  IT_User | 07/15/04
Longhorn: No promises  michael-t | 07/14/04

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