Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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It's quite repugnant how machines turn into useless,
spineless relics (no wonder users complain about speed).
This clogs up the network, requires more hardware, and
raises the bill for all of us. Actually, I am having a
discussion about this right now, at uk.legal:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_frm/thread/16650bc13bc4f0b5/f370324a6c7b6c90#f370324a6c7b6c90
Interesting read, but one comment to Alex Heney therein:
If Windwos is /fit for purpose/ why did MS advise for Christmas 2003:
``Microsoft's festive advice: Don't plug our PCs into the Web
``Its slogan is "where do you want to go today?" But Microsoft asks that if
you get a Windows computer for Christmas, don't take it to one particular
place: the internet.
``At least, the company says, not until you've been to the shops again to
buy extra software, and protected the system from the deluge of viruses and
worms that target the flaws in Microsoft's software as soon as you take it
online.''
[http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2003-December/054204.html]
If Windwos was /fit for purpose/ that would include taking it online *as
is*; however, MS themselves advise that you should get /extra/ software to
fix flaws in its own OS. Surely this was an admission from MS that Windwos
was *NOT* /fit for the purpose/ [of web browsing and email in particular]?
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