Hello, On Apr 9, 2005 4:37 AM, RBW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The funny thing about this piece of information that got forwarded to me > is that the majority of the target user base has not heard of this > impending event... At All...
This article is misleading, and I believe most users assumptions of what Automatic Update is is closer to the procedures that are going to happen. What is actually happening, is apparently if you have automatic updates enabled on your Windows Xp box, there was on option to still get automatic updates, but not actually update to sp2. imho, most people who would enable automatic updates are going to want the latest(and may or may not be greatest) Windows form MS. > I predict a LOT of confusion and angst are in store for more than half > the computer using world... The only segment of the "computer using world" that is really affected by this is the companies that have an actual testing procedure in place before they upgrade anything. I have personally seen very few companies like that. > Wouldn't it be interesting if this resulted in additional openings for > the Linux distros targeting the desktop? Lindows/Linspire could generate > some press from this as could NDL (Novell Desktop Linux) and maybe > others. I don't think that anybody pro-linux/anti-Microsoft could produce any type of positive press from this. Any attempt would most likely generate a clarification from MS which makes the person issuing the press release look like they don't know the issues. m2c, and sorry about being OT(I personally won't respond anymore to this topic) Steve -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
