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Ranjan Acharya
Mark,
I do not care about update. Most of my customers would never connect to the Internet.
Will ignoring or turning off Windows Update help me with this too?
It is 02h00m your customer is in the middle of nowhere at a wood pulp factory. The Windows XP SCADA box died and the back-up is busted too (told ya' you should have used Win2000 or Linux). You quickly talked them through restoring from a Ghost or DriveImage to the plug-in spare hard drive back-up what next? Does it work? This customer, like many, does not understand what to do with PCs. I am under the distinct impression that some sort of
authorisation is required from Redmond if XP thinks that you have been tinkling around (guilty until proven innocent, after all).
I think that Microsoft want to make computers like TVs. You buy them, they break (a little sooner for PCs) and then you toss them away. That just does not fit with the tinkerers in automatia land.
RA
I do not care about update. Most of my customers would never connect to the Internet.
Will ignoring or turning off Windows Update help me with this too?
It is 02h00m your customer is in the middle of nowhere at a wood pulp factory. The Windows XP SCADA box died and the back-up is busted too (told ya' you should have used Win2000 or Linux). You quickly talked them through restoring from a Ghost or DriveImage to the plug-in spare hard drive back-up what next? Does it work? This customer, like many, does not understand what to do with PCs. I am under the distinct impression that some sort of
authorisation is required from Redmond if XP thinks that you have been tinkling around (guilty until proven innocent, after all).
I think that Microsoft want to make computers like TVs. You buy them, they break (a little sooner for PCs) and then you toss them away. That just does not fit with the tinkerers in automatia land.
RA