Taking the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" view isn't going to help the poor innocents, those who have their machines patched to the hilt, but still end up getting flooded with virally loaded mail.

I agree with one of the other posters, that M$ could give away free upgrades to WinXp or whatever, I don't particularly like the idea, but, it certainly might help. Of course, there's no such thing as a "Free" upgrade, you need someone to do the upgrade, but, it might help some people.

Upgrading from Win95/98 to WinXP doesn't require an insignificant expenditure, justifying $800 dollars of expenditure, for the lack of innovation and functionality between Win98 and WinXP is very difficult.

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