On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:25:50 EDT, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> 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