> This should be a cautionary tale about > deploying beta products in production environments."
Actually, this is a lot funnier. It's a cautionary tale about Microsoft gobbling up the market leader and turning the product into an unreliable beta.
This is of course actually an old tale for anyone who knows anything about how Microsoft and any monopoly or near-monopoly treats its own and competitors' products. It's amazing that consumers still don't complain about the complete passiveness of consumer protection agencies in computer matters in all countries, even those that claim to be better than the rest.
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Of course. They announced it 5 days agot .security.reut/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/02/07/microsof
but there have been rumors of this for a long time.
And much more is coming... Soon most people will be buying cars and freezers running MS OSs and other crap.
> This should be a cautionary tale about
> deploying beta products in production environments."
Actually, this is a lot funnier. It's a cautionary tale about Microsoft gobbling up the market leader and turning the product into an unreliable beta.
This is of course actually an old tale for anyone who knows anything about how Microsoft and any monopoly or near-monopoly treats its own and competitors' products. It's amazing that consumers still don't complain about the complete passiveness of consumer protection agencies in computer matters in all countries, even those that claim to be better than the rest.