Re: [PcTech] Recovering XP Pro after Thinkpad hard disk

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott

Scott Johnson wrote:

> > I could move but I live and work in a nearly 700
> > year old fortified medieval stone gatehouse and I don't
> > wish to leave at present.  There are no others around!
> >    
>
> COOL!!  Who lives in the castle?
>
>  
>
> > Apalling!  Why aren't the large companies, such as IBM, doing
> > anything  about this?
> >    
>
> Nobody really OWNS the Internet.  So it is not really up to the big companies to
> police it.  If they would there would probably be all kinds of 1st Amendment
> lawsuits.  
I realise that but IBM, Compaq, Dell. etc. are surely powerful enough 
together to try and persuade MS to get their act together.

> I think you should really be mad at Microsoft for creating an OS that
> is a virus haven.  I just read an article last night about how MS says Server
> 2003 is the most secure OS they have produced.  The article goes onto say that
> MS has just released its 4th patch for the OS.  And Server 2003 has not been out
> that long.  The 4th is a critical patch that, guess what, fixes a security hole.
I believe this, but, although I am permanently mad at MS, I don't have 
the funds or the time to take them on and they certainly wouldn't listen 
if I asked them nicely.

Best wishes

Rob Dixon