On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:38:12 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, null@zilch.com
wrote:
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[snip]
>
> M$ may not allow you to download OS security patches without IE.
[snip]

TTBOMK, that has not actually happened. Yes, they go to some lengths to
make it _look_like_ MSIE is required in a lot of places it really isn't; but
so far anyway, I've been able to D/L any needed update/patch using other
tools (note that many of them aren't needed at all if you ditch MSIE in the
first place).

I suspect that as soon as they actually *require* MSIE to D/L something
like an OS bug-fix or security patch, they'll find themselves back in court
on Restraint of Trade charges -- and they'll lose.

> OTOH, there are absolutely _no_ valid reasons for using OE or Outlook.

True. Tho' one otherwise intelligent friend of mine still insists on using
Outleak because of the way Act! integrates with it. One of these days, I've
got to find a good Act!-replacement for him, so he no longer has that
excuse.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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