MS is vulnerable

Thu Jan 29 16:10:49 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
> Sent: January 29, 2004 10:58 AM
> To: doug at nanog.con.com
> Cc: Vivien M.; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: MS is vulnerable
> 
> > This is because your mom doesn't want to have to hire a technical 
> > consultant to manage her IT infrastructure when all she 
> wants to do is 
> > get email pictures of her grandkids.
> 
> Then yer mom should get a Mac.

And if she's like my mom, she'll be in the aisle in the computer store
(well, the big box electronics store, more realistically) and be like "Why
should I pay $2000 for this one when I can get 'a computer' for $500?" [1]

You can't expect people's mothers to actually know the differences between
the different platforms, just like I'm sure that when most people's mothers
shop for cars, they can't tell you the advantage of a particular engine type
over another. They just end up picking based on price and "ability to meet
need", and for most mothers old-enough-to-have-NANOG-posting-kids out there,
your $500 eMachines or whatever is more than enough. Expecting them to spend
additional money to address a problem they don't understand is an
unrealistic expectation.

Vivien
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Vivien M.
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Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
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