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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Windows updates and dial up users
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:25:50 EDT, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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
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