<OT> MS finally gets a little smarter

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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>Just got this in an email:
>Dear Douglas J.:
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>We are currently planning for the Windows Update V5 Preview Program. As a 
>current Windows Update V4 beta user, we hope you will consider participating 
>in this new program.
>
>The vision for Windows Update V5 is to provide an efficient and effective 
>means to keep all Microsoft products secure and up to date with the latest 
>patches, starting with Windows, Office, SQL, and Exchange.
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>looks like you'll *finally* be able to go to windowsupdate and actually update 
>everything. Not windowsupdate for this and officeupdate for that, and technet 
>for everything else..

To do this, you have to trust Microsoft with your machine (the EULA for XP
says they own it and can change anything at any time any way).  How many
times have M$ patches broken more than they fixed?

On the other hand, anybody who runs Windows deserves what they get.

Bill
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