How exactly is this opt-in? If you want the patches you have to sign up right? Unless you want to use the incredibly lousy windows update you have no choice but to use this right? This is yet another example of MS treating its customers like criminals. Now I have to go through some stupid process to download patches off the web because their OS is so hackable that its being pirated left and right. Another great move MS. If they really wanted to stop piracy they would drop the price of their products. $200 for xp pro is just ridiculous.

Another thing that bothered me about this article is the author makes it seem like MS has no choice here, that they are choosing the lesser of two evils. They just had the most profitable year ever. They aren't backed into a corner like the author suggests. Another pro-MS article by a MS fanboy.

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