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Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
From: Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:17:59 -0800
At 11:13 AM 10/23/2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's Windows computers?
Interesting question from several angles. Here's the flip side. Our corporate IT department likes to magically download software and configuration changes to us without telling us, which occasionally has the effect of having someone in the middle of a presentation to a customer have something pop up and say "I have installed new software on your laptop, because you need it and it is good for you. Click here to reboot."
um, ... timing is everything, right?Personally, I don't ask my ISP or my IT department to randomly change the configuration of my computer. I am very happy for them to suggest changes, but *if* I agree, *I* want to install them when it is convenient for *me*, not when it is convenient for *them*.
That said, this particular configuration change is an improvement...
Current thread:
- AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Jared Mauch (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Terry Baranski (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Wallingford (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Chris Brenton (Oct 24)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Bruns (Oct 24)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Terry Baranski (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Michael Loftis (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 23)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings chuck goolsbee (Oct 23)
- RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Brian Knoblauch (Oct 24)
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- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Fred Baker (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Henry Linneweh (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Daniel Golding (Oct 30)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Fred Baker (Oct 28)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Jared Mauch (Oct 23)
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- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS (Oct 24)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 24)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings J Bacher (Oct 25)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Matthew Palmer (Oct 27)
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- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Eric Kuhnke (Oct 25)
- Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings Sean Donelan (Oct 24)