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"Frank" <bbunny@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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NoStop wrote:
|| On Friday 07 July 2006 05:51 pm, Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows
|| Shell/User had this to say in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
||
||| The SP2 firewall does a job for sure, but only half of a job.. it
||| blocks incoming nasties, but does not tell the user if something
||| nasty is being inadvertently sent out..
|||
||| The SP2 firewall primarily exists to protect a newly installed
||| system during its first outings on the internet.. Microsoft do
||| actually suggest that a third party firewall is used thereafter..
|||
|| I didn't know that. I did know that I have yet to find any bundled
|| utility provided by Microsoft that was nearly as good as some of the
|| third-party alternatives. I wrote this off to just plain
|| incompetence by MickeyMouse. Now you tell us it is planned that way.
|| Unbelievable that this total disregard for their customers/users has
|| still lead to making MickeyMouse the richest software company in the
|| world. Certainly can't be due to either its "innovation" nor its
|| quality software. Must have to do with its ability to market an
|| inferior product and have the Wintards believe they're getting a
|| deal even if it means having to spend additional money with
|| third-party developers to get full functionality.
||
Or it could be the minimal to no cost of XP to the BIG PC manufacturers.


The horse manure that you spout is just that - manure!

Microsoft was stomped on by the federal government, plain and simple.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


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