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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Cheats on Patches Count, Patches Holes Slilently

____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 23 June 2007 10:46 : \____

> William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> It was on, or about,  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:06:33 +0100, that as I was
>> halfway through a large jam doughnut, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> ____/ [H]omer on Thursday 21 June 2007 04:50 : \____
>> 
>><snip>
>> 
>>>> I see Mike Cox is now trolling zdnet.
>>>  
>>> Haha! He's hilarious.
>>> 
>>> "Think of Microsoft as an all-knowing tenured professor. It knows what
>>> it is best for you, knows how much you can handle and knows what
>>> information you need to know. I meet with Windows developers regularly
>>> and they are pretty adamant that they know what is best for everyone. I
>>> fully agree and tell my rep "ignorance is bliss, especially when the
>>> Vista WOW is NOW!". My rep then thanks me with various shirts and pens
>>> that "make my day" all it can be. Why lose sleep over security holes or
>>> vulnerabilities? The easiest thing to do is deploy, and deploy without
>>> prejudice. Then, and only then, will you undersstand the true power of
>>> the WOW."
>> 
>> Well if *that* doesn't stink of a M$ shill....
>> 
> 
> Surely that is a joke?  It seems to me that Mike Cox is merely trolling
> as ever.
 
I don't know the guy's history. He showed up in COLA some months ago, but that
was the first time I heard about him. I got the impression that he was a
pos[t]er like "Bill Gates" who tries to use weird (and not so successful)
humour to give a taste of Microsoft's attitude. It seems satirical, but
sometimes confusing and maybe redundant.

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