Microsoft to split?

I don't know if any of you caught this bit of news before, but I thought I would share it with you: My fav part was this: Quote:Under the agreement, Microsoft will no longer issue patches, which Gates said explains the recent five-day outage at Microsoft's upgrade site.

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I don't know if any of you caught this bit of "news" before, but I thought I would share it with you:
 
http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/patchsoft.shtml
 
My fav part was this:
 

Quote:Under the agreement, Microsoft will no longer issue patches, which Gates said explains the recent five-day outage at Microsoft's upgrade site. "That was planned," he said. "It was a test of the Microsoft No Patch Access system. Went perfectly. No one was able to download anything."  
Nice.
 


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one word (sort of): satirewire
 
think about it

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Very funny!

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Yeah right!