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Hi MS,

Well, if you are serious, here's what you need to do to compete in the home media appliance marketplace...

First: Ditch Palladium/DRM. Why on earth would we want Bill Gates telling us where we can store and on which device we can play our music/movies or look at our family pictures?

Second: Ditch the "phone-home" spyware. I don't keep anything critical on Windows due to the simple fact that you transmit things from my PC back to Redmond without telling me, and you encrypt them so I can't see what it is you send. Is that my financial data you're stealing? I know you do this because I use a firewall with outbound blocking, and I can see the connection attempts. This is the real reason why WXP-SP2's firewall doesn't block outgoing; so you can keep spying.

Third: Take security seriously. I can't keep a legacy of 5 generations of family in both scanned and digital pictures on a system which can be slashed and burned at will by any script kiddie with visual basic and an ISP account.

Fourth: Take stability seriously. You've done much better on this score, with the improvements from 9x through to XP being major advances in stability. My TV and stereo never crash. They just work; every time. Windows has to equal that.

Fifth: Stop bullying and threatening your customers. This isn't a technological issue, but an important one none-the-less. You have already squandered whatever good will we once had for you. We just don't trust you.

Regards,
Jon
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Ever hear of backups  voska | 10/12/04
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Doesn't matter  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/12/04
backups schmackups  PVkWatts | 10/12/04
Reality Disconnect  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/12/04
If MS is serious, here's what they need to do...  JonathonDoe | 10/12/04
hear hear  psychodave | 10/12/04
Just Great!  htotten | 10/12/04
Call me old fashioned  skeptic tank | 10/12/04
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Monotonous & Boorish  Middle of the Road | 10/13/04
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