A cure that tells you to use another product. Lets see... M$ Outlook comes with the Office Suite(s), which is sapposed to be purchased. Outlook Express is Free as long as you don't take it apart, look at it funny, talk behind it's back.. Standard M$ agreement. So thier fix is to change from a purchased product to a somewhat free product (I think at the bottom the the License Agreement, it states your soul belongs to William Gates, though I might be wrong), Losing the extra functionality of plain old Outlook. Hmmm.. This doesn't sound much like fixing as it does assimilating. Getting rid of Purchased software in exchange for free software can be good at time (I'd drop any WinXX box and install any of the BSD's , Linux, even Slowaris x86 ) But the good free products aren't coming outta M$'s Developers Corner. The Unix flavours I mentioned earlier are all free and don't take away functionality from Servers or Workstations anymore. A Linux workstation or two will co-exist nicely in a MS Dominant Network. (Even though the Network Admin should be dragged out and beatin (In my Opinion)). Linux, BSD's, and Solaris x86 all are capable now of performing the same tasks as Win Workstations, and have several additional features, some easy to use for even the now so computer literate (Unless they actually want to get down and dirty and out of X) with less bloat the thier M$ Rival. The Unix's have always beat the snot outta NT as far as servers go, they always will. I don't care if you can get Certified by MS and be considered a System Administrator and have a job paying X amount.. When it comes down to it, when something goes wrong, when security has been breached, how much can the person do. He's probably most prepared to handle the cleaning up of the breakin, since an M$ fix is usually unistall, re-install and start from scratch. Oh well... Just Me Bitching.

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