"Microsoft changes its mind again" is pretty much a "dog bites man" item but my reader says he needs more content. A short time ago MS announced it would allow XP/SP2 to upgrade any system, pirated or not. Well it only took them about a week to reverse themselves on that one based on this report at BBC News. This is unfortunate for the Internet as a whole since infected current generation Windows systems are the major source of DDOS attacks. These are completely of MS's making due to incompetent MS developers and managers and should be repaired regardless of MS revenue considerations. I wonder how many of those "20 most pirated" keys belong to big F500 customers. Wouldn't it be a hoot if a few of them found themselves unable to install a critical patch set due to the "key leakage" of their employees?
Also in the same article was the fact that MS's UK XP manager admitted the abandonment of another practice that was probably still born at MS anyway. Real OS publishers know that you NEVER release new software along with patches designed to fix problems. Of course MS never understood this principle but for one shining moment they claimed to have put that behind them. Alas, Paul Randle said, "We are breaking our own rules that said we would not put new code into service packs." Now I'll have to admit that I can't find any example of a statement that MS ever actually made such a rule.
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