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Microsoft has shipped how many OSes since 1995? Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows XP SP2, and rather than getting more secure with each major OS release, security problems for consumers have gotten WORSE! With each promise of a more secure OS, we've ended up with a less secure one. At this point we've all surrendered any hope of privacy or control of our computing environment over to Microsoft's update services, so they can send us an unending stream of OS patches that never seem to fix the problem.

What're all the obstruction and pop-up dialogs in Vista for if I'm still going to need Microosft's OneCare package to be secure? What has Microsoft been writing all these years, if on the verge of its next-generation OS release, it already knows that security and maintenance for the OS will be so bad that the company figures it can make a killing selling the security and maintenance service for it seperately? I have trouble imagining a louder or clearer declaration of total surrender Microsoft could make to its inability to make a reliable OS than to announce OneCare for Windows on the verge of Vista's release.

The very suggestion that Microsoft has any moral authority or creditability with anybody on the subject of security is so wildly, unimaginably absurd at this point that any rational person heraring any form of the word "security" uttered from Microsoft's lips should immediately collapse on the ground roaring with laughter.

ill have to pick up a copy. though... anywhere in cola that would sell it at less than full price?