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Genuine Advantage: More Viruses[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#39)
by kstern on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 09:07:09 AM PDT

If 25% or more of Windows cannot be updated, it's that many more machines open to Virus/Trojan infections that turn them into Viral Spreading Machines. These updates are primarily to repair defects in the original release of the software -- defects which should not have been present in the first place. Imagine if you had to bring your car in to the dealer once a month for "updates".

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Don't be stupid.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#66)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 12:07:39 PM PDT

Nice analogy, and how many car dealers would be willing to "update" the cars that were stolen from their lot? Not many I think.

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missed the point[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#71)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 12:31:21 PM PDT

But imagine if you bought a car in good faith, only to return for critical maintenance, and to be told that you had unwittingly bought a counterfit, and you must now accept it as is - i.e. in need of critical maintenance.

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car analogy[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#83)
by kstern on Fri Jan 28, 2005 at 02:50:22 PM PDT

It's more like a recall to repair a safety defect, caused by manufacturer's negligence, which endangers not only the driver and his passengers, but also innocent bystanders.

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Re: Security updates[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#93)
by foxyshadis1 on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 03:26:19 AM PDT

Security Updates through automatic updates (and windows update? Maybe) will still work. Then again, on nearly every client computer I find that people simply ignore the update icon, and definitely never visit windows update, so only SP2 machines will really benefit from that.

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Bad Move Microsoft[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#163)
by Anonymous User on Sun Jul 31, 2005 at 09:02:37 PM PDT

Microsoft in my opinion is wide open to many problems and always will be.Just look at the way it allows outher computers to acess ours everytime we go on the internet.Browsers like (Firefox) are becomeing more popular all of the time because they are much better than anything microsoft`s Outlook & Internet Explorer can offer. And why do we keep getting buggy updates like service pack 2,everyone needed a reload after that mess came out. what i am trying to say is that if Microsoft wants to sell the people software they should first make it worth buying and not leave it up to the customer to carry the burdon of helping make it work right by constantly downloading Service Packs & Patches. It is time for something better !!!

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