[62760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows updates and dial up users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Sep 22 06:46:47 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:45:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200309220204.h8M24s9r014140@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:25:50 EDT, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> said:
>
> > "I recently put this suggestion to Microsoft and their response basically
> > avoided the whole issue. Why wouldn't the company want to offer such a CD,
> > assuming that's the motivation behind their stonewalling?"
>
> It would cost money to produce and ship a new CD on a frequent enough basis
> for it to do any good. Consider that we're seeing worms within 4 weeks of the
> patch coming out. How many CD duplicating places are willing to take on
> a multi-million run with a 1-2 week turn-around, once a month, every month?
Ok then different idea, assuming that we're all agreed its MS's responsibility
to ensure users are patched promptly and without extra cost to the end user.
Its not a problem patching on a dialup, it just takes longer, this may put
people off when they see their computer tell them its going to take 3 hours to
download and theyre paying per minute on the call
What if MS included something in the Windows Update that gave the user the
option of calling a toll-free number operated by MS for the purpose of
downloading.. ?
Steve
