What are we projecting to happen in personal computing in 2004?
Joe expects there to be patches from Microsoft in January. Big stretch there. Hank told of someone using a dial-up modem who needed 52 patches applied to their computer. This is all but impossible over a dial-up line because of the size of many of the patches. The solution? Hank took the computer to his house to apply the patches using his broadband connection. Michael wondered why Microsoft does not distribute patches every couple months on CDs and sell them at cost. If you are reasonably up to date on patches, the few you are missing can be downloaded even over a dial-up line. VOIP is getting a lot of attention now. It stands for Voice Over IP protocol and refers to making telephone calls over your Internet connection. For a good summary of VOIP and links to additional information, see Year in review: Hello, it’s VoIP from CNET News.com December 23, 2003. Internet telephones had their coming-out party in 2003. Hank felt is was going to be very popular in 2004 as many large companies
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