From: Mike '/m' 


What, you think that Microsoft thinks *you* own your PC?

One of the reasons why I looked for an alternative to IE waaaayy back when,
was that IE kept on insisting to place *it's* favorite sites on
*my* favorites toolbar.  I could not get IE to understand that I wanted
to control my toolbars.  So I stopped using IE.

Just wait until they lock *your* PC down with DRM.   Then the fun really
begins.

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that ..."

 /m


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:57:40 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>Ok so when I installed our desktop systems, I opted to remove OE from them,
>I also got rid of ads for MSN, AOL, etc.
>
>Today I had to patch a few of these machines (we usually don't patch
>internal machines). That patching restored OE to the machines even though
>there was no OE on them to patch. Ok maybe I can understand that one even
>though it was a bitch to delete OE because it's a frellin protected file.
>
>However it also enabled the automatic updates even though these machine
>don't even have internet access and even though I had purposely set this
>service to manual.
>
>Then as if that wasn't enough, it added shortcuts to MSN and such like what,
>the shortcuts were required for security reasons? Oh and it put an OE icon
>back in the quickstart menu, like some security issue was caused by that
>being missing?
>
>This is what's wrong with MS and how they think, they have totally lost
>touch with network administrators who put them where they are today, they
>have decided it's more important to treat our networks like their personal
>advertising grounds, like they know what programs we require installed even
>if we don't want OE, like they have some omnipotent logic to know what
>services we need running even if we have manually set them to not run, etc.
>Like who the f* decided my users need a shortcut to MSN???
>
>This is the bullshit that is going to drive the move to Linux.
>
>Geo. (a very unhappy customer, and it only gets worse with later versions
>than W2K)
>

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