Microsoft's Velvet Glove

Microsoft's Velvet Glove
Mark Burnett, 2005-01-31

Redmond's plan to make you install Windows authentication software before downloading vital security patches is a reasonable and gentle effort to limit piracy.

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You make a good point but what you don't account for is the lowest common denonimator. Most users (the people that don't read lists like this one) don't understand the issues involved in fixing software and therefore will never apply any patch. This would be bad.

MS are try to move to a more consume market so as not to scare people.

What MS software needs is a big red button that says "I know what I'm doing" which would put the software into a different mode.

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