Luser thinks she is safe on Windows ME

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

Actual quote today from a customer:

ME computer luser> OK. Thanks! I really hate to update my ME - I love the idea that it’s so old that nobody is writing viruses for it!

O.o

Comments

[shirenomad]

"It's not because it's old, it's because it's like kicking a quadriplegic."

[forge.livejournal.com]

The quote there totally reminds me of a KMFDM track

[forge.livejournal.com]

In your av, I mean.

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

ARRRRRRGH. (0)!

The stupid burns.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Why would anybody even need to write a virus to make ME not work right? :-P

[jecook]

Indeed. It took all the cosmetic niceities from windows 2000 and all the grinches from 98 SE and added a nice layer of drool proofing to make it horrid to support.

Last place I worked at, we had a few machines running ME. We put 98se back on them so as to have something easier to support and deal with before we replaced the machines with XP based systems.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

My mother has a ME cd lying around for some reason. Whenever an OS breaks, she suggests putting that on it. I can only hope she's toying with me.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I see a way to solve this problem: convince her to roll back to Windows 95. After all, if ME is safer than XP, 95 must be the best of all! Then the next time she calls, you can tell her you don't support that OS any more.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Windows 3.1! Or better yet, BOB. That should have heaps of security through obscurity.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

omigod, BOB. I had almost managed to forget about that....oh geez.

[violetvixen.livejournal.com]

oh my....


words do not express.....


large amounts of explosives do.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"No-one writes viruses for it because the entire internet is filled with M.E. viruses and there isn't room for any more."

nobody is writing viruses

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

what is their IP address? I am sure someone in this LJ community could fix that...