Re: Love and Hate



>> just by being on the Internet with IE and/or using Outlook Express.

> Same with AIDS: The incidence is very low among the celibate.

So your advice seems to be: don't use IE or Outlook.

>> Microsoft don't want this fixed, nor do Dell or Gateway, they get to
>> sell lots more and profit.

> Not so. Micros~1 would like this fixed inasmuch as Micros~1 doesn't sell
> speed - it sells features.

MS doesn't want it fixed in the _current_ system, it wants it fixed
(allegedly) in the next one (Longhorn) so that there will be a reason
for people to buy that. In fact people may even think that buying into
DRM and 'Trusted Computing' sounds like what they will need to fix the
malware, only it won't be.

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