I applaud them for trying, however, in one case that affects me personally, they've shown that they'd rather go around a problem, then tackle it. In the case of...

"Limited number of simultaneous incomplete outbound TCP connection attempts"

This can be found here...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/mainta
in/sp2netwk.mspx#XSLTsection127121120120

I've written a port scanner ( www.aviditysoftware.com )for administering VNC hosts on a network, which now will only work unacceptably slow at best. The OS deciding that I can't have as many outbound TCP/IP connections as I want rubs me the wrong way. However again, I do appreciate their effort, I just wish they weren't so "Microsoftish" about it.

Also, I *DO* admit I might be a little ignorant about sockets programming, perhaps I need different methodes. But from the knowledge I DO have, I don't see how I could rewrite it to perform quickly enough for my needs.

( This morning I found a a small util that hacks the tcpip.sys file to allow more than 10 outbound connections. So I'm a *little* happier...)

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