[olug] Microsoft Any Thoughts

[Kent Tegels]

While all the "don't steal" sentiment is appreciated, there's
something not to be overlooked with this, and that's that they
(Microsoft) aren't shutting off automatic updates to these machines.

When I first heard about the plan, I was like "Geeze, how boneheaded!
You're just going to compound the subversion of machines problems by
not letting them be updated but stay live on a network." That risk
should be somewhat mitigated by automatic updates provided the users
turn that feature on.

It'd be nice to think that those users who have tainted OSes -- for
whatever reason -- will at least be considerate enough of the rest of
us to cover there own assets with this feature.

K'Pla,
Kent

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:20:03 -0800 (PST), Michael Ray
<mikejodi68041 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/26/microsoft_pirate/
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Thanks!
Kent Tegels