On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 11:19, Steve Bibayoff wrote: > 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
Cool... Good points none-the-less... We'll see ;^) RBW -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
