[67382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Feb 9 10:37:58 2004
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:35:58 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <U+QqGM2En4JAFAjU@perry.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Roland Perry wrote:
>
> It doesn't cost the user any extra to include such a feature in the
> next version of Windows, and in all the Critical Updates downloaded
> starting tomorrow. [Obviously it costs MS something to do the software
> development.]
It does if you provide free support. You get millions of people calling
asking how to disable the annoying feature that they got when they
updated the computer. In addition they will tell other people not to
upgrade because it gets more annoying to use email and the earlier way
was more convinient.
You missed my point earlier.
Pete
