From: Mike '/m' 


Yup, that's one of the advantages to having a monopoly.  When your revenue
stream starts to slow down due to a bad economy, all you have to do is
refuse to patch a gaping security hole in your software, and require your
customer to buy the upgrade in order to have a secure computing
environment.

Microsoft, it seems, feels they can get away with treating their customers like that.

 /m




On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:46:00 +0100, Thees Peereboom  wrote:

>Mike,
>
>Also a lot of people are still running NT4servers as PDC's. Budgets
>are a bit tight these days, little room for socalled 'upgrades' that
>only upgrade MSFT's revenues.
>
>- Thees Peereboom
>
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:32:58 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>
>>Over half the PCs where I work are running NT4.
>>
>> /m
>>
>>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:51:48 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I'm sure I'm not the only one still using quite a few NT4
licences.  A lot
of people will be looking into this one I suspect.  What
>>>with softice and debug kernels the truth will get out no matter
what it is.
>>>
>>>"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e838cf5{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Want to bet money the user community releases a fix to
this impossible
>>>> problem?
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>>>> news:rju68v03do3gfp457m4af0vvm7fmam8rul{at}4ax.com...
>>>> >
>>>> > As I've been saying, the first thing Microsoft needs
to do is to start
up
>>>> > their Trustworthy Executives initiative.  Does
Microsoft really expect
IT
>>>> > people to believe this excuse?
>>>> >
>>>> >  /m
>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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