On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, sam.cooks wrote: > You don't have to be a business and shell out $$$$ to keep your MS OS > updated. > > I have Microsoft XP Home on my desktop and have had other Microsoft > operating systems. I regularly receive notifications from Microsoft > that updates are available for download. Not as email, but via the > operating system which checks for these and then notifies me. It's also possible to sign up for free email notifications. I've done it. (I maintain a mixed Windows/Linux LAN for a small company.) The messages never have anything attached, though; they're just pointers to go to the Microsoft website to get the update.
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