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I pointed out that this exploit was vastly overblown because it doesn't even affect Windows XP.

What planet do you live on? Here on Earth, companies don't upgrade their desktop OS's as often as you seem to think. For example, I'm sitting here at work on a 2.4 GHZ p4.... running Windows 2000 workstation.

http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32706.html

"Laura DiDio, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group, surveyed the market about six months ago, polling 1,100 firms worldwide. She found that most ran a mixed shop: 86 percent of her sample were still running Windows NT workstations, while 48 percent still had Windows 98 someplace. While Windows XP has been available since late 2001, IDC estimates there are 58 million copies of Windows 98 still installed worldwide, making up 20 percent of Windows licenses. Microsoft, which had planned to pull the plug on support for Windows 98 this month, has just extended it to 2006."

"In the Yankee Group sample, 57 percent used Windows 2000, said DiDio, and 72 percent used Windows XP, although less than 20 percent of those users said XP accounted for the bulk of their screens."

YOU thought that this was a not serious bug, MICROSOFT CALLS IT CRITICAL.

YOU think that if it doesn't affect Win XP, it's moot - but Windows 98 still represents 20% of Microsoft licenses still in use, and MS extended support for another two years.

To paraphrase Rob Zombie - you are MORE MICROSOFT THAN MICROSOFT. "Dude."

As for my having a "built in ideological cesspool," kinda funny accusation for a guy who has at home two windows systems, a Sun SPARC running Solaris 9, two OpenBSD systems, a FreeBSD box, and a Linux laptop... and a Windows XP system serves as my main workstation. The rest (except the laptop of course) are headless.

What planet do you live on? Here on Earth, companies don't upgrade their desktop OS's as often as you seem to think. For example, I'm sitting here at work on a 2.4 GHZ p4.... running Windows 2000 workstation.

Uh, Forrest, we're not talking about Win2000 (it's not affected). We're talking about Windows 95 and Windows 98 -- code that is between 6 and 9 years old, for chrissakes. Get a grip.

As for my having a "built in ideological cesspool," kinda funny accusation for a guy who has at home two windows systems, a Sun SPARC running Solaris 9, two OpenBSD systems, a FreeBSD box, and a Linux laptop... and a Windows XP system serves as my main workstation. The rest (except the laptop of course) are headless.

I could care less what you own. You've shown time and time again that that "ideological cesspool" is fed by Linux/open source/Mac/anti-M$ bigotry.