Re: MS Windows Security Update CD now available

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From: Val - Microsoft [.NOT MVP] (nobody_home_at_this.dot.com)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:07:52 -0500

hey mvNOTpee....

how about not xposting? 

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val
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  "cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message news:0opc30h23bdbo97cdh0qrj2gdg39p852ei@4ax.com...
  On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:59:46 -0800, "Gary S. Terhune" 
  Hey Gary; how about 76 characters a line?  Free Agent doesn't do
  auto-wrap on quoted text, which makes replying rather tedious!
  >"You are either an idiot who needs an IT to manage your machine 
  > (and take total responsibility for it), or you are an idiot who needs
  > us (Microsoft) to do it for you. If you want us to do it for you, you
  > gotta do it our way. We can't be spending millions to provide yet
  > another maze of selections that only an IT can probably be trusted to
  > maneuver through properly, anyway, and then *also* promise you an 
  > end result that is as secure as we can make it. Listen Up! We may be
  > behind the curve on this one, but we've seen the light. Security is
  > *all* we care about right now. If your system can't handle the
  > updates we consider minimum requirements, well then that's your 
  > tough luck. We tried, we're trying, and we'll keep on trying. We're
  > damned if we do and damned if we don't, and while we make 
  > mistakes, we do our level best to fix them, priorities, technology,
  > time and resources permitting.
  Well, whether this is (even to MS) an acceptable result depends on
  whether they are after plausable deniability, or genuinely want to do
  a debulking operation on the exploitable % of the infosphere.
  If the latter, then this will fail when compared to the improved
  returns that a modicum of effort into reaching basic "good software
  behaviour" norms would have delivered.
  A number of users will hear rumours that this CD is to be avoided, as:
    - it leverages MS monopoly to add foistware (from anti-MS "pundits")
    - it bloats and slows down the system (from anyone who's used it)
  The latter's inevitable for 1998 - 1999 era PCs that would be better
  off avoiding WMP9 etc.  If the user (or user's tech) can't fillet out
  bloatware such as WMP, they have no choice but to not use it.
  The centrally-administered networks you have in mind will usually have
  some sort of fat pipe access to make downloads practical, as well as
  the IT suss to manage patching.  Who *really* needed a decent CD are
  stand-alone techs, both pro and over-the-fence helpers, who have to
  rely on modem DUN and warez bunnies as their patch sources.
  I'm glad MS did it, sorry our pre-release input didn't take root.
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