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Ed Foster reports that the campers aren't happy - MS is considering making Windows Updates a mandatory part of the license. Yeah, like I want that. My wife's system lost the ability to do dhcp on boot after a Windows update, and hasn't ever gotten that back. We went to a static IP, which solved the problem. Others are even less pleased:
"We now use our firewalls to block the users from going to Windows Update site and attempting to patch things themselves," wrote one reader. "The extremely high cost of ownership -- partly due to all of these problems and patches -- weighs heavily against any future purchases of Microsoft products. If Microsoft decides to make patches mandatory, it will effectively remove our ability to control the patching process in a way that protects our company from their screw-ups. It will be the final issue that leaves us no alternative but to migrate to Linux. How's that for irony? A Microsoft innovation that forces me to purchase Linux instead."
Here's a tip - no one cares about Longhorn. No one cares about the "great new features". What they care about is having stuff that actually works now.
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