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Woody says: “Given the murkiness of this new social networking scheme, I’d just as soon opt out — if I could only figure out how”.

I’m surprised … simply CLOSE your account. Close Hotmail, Close all Windows ‘Live’ anything.

If enough people go away, Mickey loses ad revenue and may re-think its policies of divulging information without your express wishes.

FWIW, I don’t have any, but I have put a blocker on my server that now rejects -=all=- emails from Hotmail with a note explaining MS’s current policy of disclosing my reply in a ‘public’ area as the reason.

Sorry for those of you who might wish to contact me about my Railroad and Philatelic research information and on line tools!

Just find another email provider!

I realize this forum is for users running Windows, but if you were to take the second hand smoke analogy to the logical conclusion, then the answer is to ban machines running Windows software from the internet. This would be a great boost for Macintosh and Linux.

However if you take Microsofts prefered solution that the ISP only permits Windows machines with specified patches, what an easy way to kill the competition from Macs and Linux.

I like a machine that just works, and I don’t have to futz with patches and constantly updating ant-malware, and having to babysit to make sure it doesn’t automagically decide to reboot for this excuse or that while I’m in the middle of work. Running Windows does not provide this ease of use experience.

I understand that NOT USING WINDOWS, is not a fix for people trying to run Windows and solving the problems presented with Microsoft’s products, and for that I apologize. But the proposal from a Microsoft executive that tries to force Microsoft policies on all users of the internet for the benefit of Microsoft was just too much.

Excellent statement !

The fault lies with Microsoft in providing a buggy OS! This is just another case of passing the buck to the ‘small’ person, not big corporation assumption of the problems caused by their inability or unwillingness to provide a properly made product. It’s akin to making the home owner responsible for both suffering the loss and bearing the cost of catching a crook.

Perhaps MS would like to provide all ISPs with their in-house conference scanning system at no charge?

Microsoft do this sort of thing all the time at conferences where all network traffic from delegates’ PCs is routed through ISA Server and inspected for signs of infection in real-time. If any signs of infection are detected, requests from that PC for an Internet page is redirected to a page on the ISA Server which says “your PC appears to have a problem – please come to the IT Support booth”

For an ISP, that could read; “Please contact our technical services for assistance.”

A little too much PC for PC’s is my opinion of Mr Scott Charney’s proposal !