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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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Bandwidth costs 2005-02-01
Anonymous
I'd imagine that Microsoft has to pay for the bandwidth costs of patch downloads. It can't be cheap -- it could easily cost millions of dollars.

So, why should they pay for patch bandwidth for pirated copies of windows? If they're smart, they should find a way of distributing the cost using ISP m...

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