RE: RE my XP Windows got broke in a Hailstorm

And since when are we not included as consumers? Perhaps "hopefully" a bit more informed and aware of the implications of the choices we make (or are forced to make) "perhaps unlike a consumer that is not in our line of work". Never the less, I am a consumer, and Joe Public as well as a HAL-9000 state of the art computing machine that eventually will lose my mind if I need to re-boot this POS one more time!. (PS... POS does not mean Point Of Sale, it refers to a fractionalized portion of poop foisted on the public by forces not unlike the common cold virus!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 14:41
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RE my XP Windows got broke in a Hailstorm

From: John Taylor <jtaylor@rpg2java.com>
> Don't you guy's get it? This (unfortunately) isn't going to hurt MS one bit
> in the long run. They already have 30 million subscribers! And they're
still
> in beta.
>
> MS, understands what some folks on this list seem to miss; Joe Public
> doesn't give a rat's ass about the things that techies hold as sacred.

but, John, although you are correct about Joe Blow, M$ is also trying
to break into (pun intended) the corporate market (where the money
is) and here things like security and uptime do matter.

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