This pisses me off. I read this CNET article about Dell’s spyware-related tech support calls being halved since last year. They attribute it to “better consumer awareness” and the availability of anti spyware tools.
Hello? Does it take a rocket scientist to realize that this is because of Windows XP Service Pack 2? This is what I hate about the media. They’ll spend years bashing Microsoft for lax security. Then Microsoft will make something like SP2 available to all (even those filthy software pirates) for free and the media will spend months talking about how businesses won’t install it and it breaks things. Then we see a report like this and they won’t even acknowledge that Service Pack 2 is most definitely the cause of such positive news.
I’m ready to unsubscribe from CNET. For the same reason I boycotted Tech TV. I’m fucking sick of this “it’s cool to bash Microsoft” attitude.
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