Re: [OT] The bug that could kill W2K...

[GL Fournerat <gary netin com>]

dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:

> >From our "Know Thy Enemy" department, here's one that's hard to believe...
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/02/27/010227hnactivedir.xml?p=br&s=8
>
> Self-answering questions: Can Microsoft really be this arrogant? Didn't anyone
> learn any lessons from Intel's Pentium math coprocessor fiasco?
>
> This could be a real bonanza for those of us pushing to displace NT and W2K in
> server spaces.
>
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
>

This is the part that _really_ chaps my rear!!  M$ lied to me in '99 and I turned
to RH immediately.. and have never looked back since.

"At some point, Microsoft switched its story. The question is how many people
            understand this is an issue, and of those, how many understand that it
won't be
            fixed until Whistler. Further, how many understand that it will require
all of their
            domain controllers to be upgraded to Whistler?" asks Neil MacDonald, an
analyst
            with Gartner.


            Microsoft says users are aware of the issue and pointed to a 400-word
passage in
            a more than 1,150-page deployment guide as proof the issue has been
explained
            to users.

They didn't make users aware!!!.. they BURIED it inside those 1,150 page!

Gary Fournerat, EX-MCP
Linux Advocate #2