Coincidently this whole issue illustrates one of my biggest beefs with Microsoft. Not the fact that it doesn't properly QA its products, but the fact that it makes too many assumptions about what features I want to run on my computer.

Frankly, I would prefer to do without UPnP altogether. If I want to add a device to my system or network then I will manually install and configure it.

Microsoft installs too many services and components by default. Worse then that, recently it has had an alarming tendency to make many otherwise unnecessary components as integral parts of the base OS, without which it will not function.

For instance why should a server which will never connect to the internet and never be used to publish or browse web content have to have components of IIS and I.E. installed in it?

If I really had my preference an instillation program would by default install only the minimum components necessary for the system to boot up and allow and administrator to logon. From there on if I need anything. I'll install it. Anything that I miss installing is something that I really didn't need in the first place.

I guess that just goes to show that ALL of Microsoft's products are really still designed for the home user and not the business or professional environment.


Chris

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