[ale] a scary scenario

[Geoffrey]

Mark Hurley wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:59:08AM -0400, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Irv Mullins wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If they actually have plans to give Windows away, they sure wasted
>>>a lot of effort and gained lots of bad press by adding all that copy
>>>protection, etc to XP.
>>>
>>>But then, Microsoft is a bureaucracy, so that kind of dunderheaded planning
>>>would be par for the course.....
>>>
> 
> What do you get when you mix...
> 
> WindowsXP + OfficeXP = MSN-Messenger that cannot be turned OFF!

There was an article in the ajc Sunday paper on how to stop 
MSN-messenger from starting on boot.  I would assume that this would be 
an answer to this problem.

> 
> I read about it in a story online the other day...and asked someone at
> work who runs XP.  It is true...you must leave it running.  The
> downside is most people say it 'upsets' them.  Ohh? I recall people
> saying the same thing years ago, but they now use IE without guilt.
> 
> I'm not saying I advocate the software.  My point is...Microsoft would
> make consumers believe their kitchen sink is part of the OS, if it
> increased their passport consumer base.
> 
> Mark
> 
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to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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