The Register: Microsoft urges people not to use the Internet

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 3, 2000

“Unsurprisingly, if you buy all your software off Microsoft,
have all the licences at hand and also purchase upgrade licences,
client access licences and purchasing licences, then you are at
low-risk. Deviate much from this and you enter medium risk.”

“Your software is pre-installed (keeping all the other answers
the same)? Medium risk. Your IT department installed it? Medium
risk. You’re not sure that you have licences for every piece of
software? High risk straight away. You don’t know exactly how many
workstations your company has? From Low to High risk in one fell
swoop….”

“Incidentally, don’t bother to try the quiz out if you are using
anything but Internet Explorer. Such is the complexity of running a
simple quiz that only a product as amazing as Explorer can deal
with it. Good to see Microsoft hasn’t changed.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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