Charlie Tame wrote:
Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
"despite old Jonesy using it in an attempt"
These little snips by you are becoming more common.
Your need to do so while selectively reading are more of a reflection
on you.



You're getting more pompous, so what?

The fact is that your attempts to play down the seriousness of the
world's leading supplier of operating systems leaving security concerns
by choice in 90% of the country's computers is irresponsible. Fair
enough, nothing serious happened "This time", but only weeks ago their
sneaky software declared a lot of their "Flagship" products illegal,
causing REAL loss of functionality BY DESIGN. What are Microsoft thinking?

Maybe their action then was accidental, maybe the sneak updates are
"Legal", but both of these are a serious blow to their claims of being
the leaders in "Trustworthy Computing" from the user's point of view.

You state that there is a "Workaround" for the update issue, and there
is, but it's not stated clearly and not something the average user would
think of, even a good IT Pro might miss it. So my question for MS is
"What Workaround do we have to look for next, what else are you doing
that we should know about?"

Failure to deal with these matter by denial helps nobody, especially
Microsoft if disillusioned users start voting with their feet.


Combine the stealth updates with OS by subscription, which MS is moving
towards with MS's patent- " for Privacy policy change notification,
which describes how to threaten users will the loss of their account,
access to web sites and services, and all of the content they provided
should they refuse to consent to changes in privacy policy to allow
personal information collected earlier with a promise of confidentiality
to be shared in the future with third parties."
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19324
Add all of these together and it doesn't smell good for the consumer.
caver1