Story of a hijack -real life spyware story.
The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this?
Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices?
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Picture this, it’s 11:45PM, the wife is soundly sleeping, I’m well on my way, when I hear my pager. It’s the work voice mail system paging me to let me know someone left me a voice mail. Someone leaving me a voice mail at 11:45PM cannot possibly be a good thing. I get up, go…
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Regarding my previous question from the weekend about where you draw the line between keeping up a good relationship with your users and letting them walk all over you with non-work technology issues, I would mostly err on the side of letting them walk over you. There’s definitely a line that needs to be drawn…