Oh, yes. There will be commentary.
No, the jack-booted thugs didn't come in the dark of night and beat us with a stick. We are still here.
Truth be told, the din of idiocy has simply numbed us over the past few months. Nothing manages to surprise us anymore so we have remained tacit more out of apathy than out of purpose. Most of the roll-out has been completed over the past couple years and although there are many new victims, the pain for all of us remains about the same.
We will be waiting with baited breath as the promised "tech refresh" rolls out. If it ever does. Many of the early deployment sites are well into four years on their hardware. This is hardware that was two years out of date when they originally received it. Of course Windows 2000 is going into it's seventh year of life, long ago eclipsed by Windows XP and soon to be further antiqued by Windows Vista. Inquiring minds would love to see the check that EDS writes to Microsoft every year for almost exclusive support of the outdated Windows 2000.
Alas, a faint whiff of hope crossed our sensors a couple weeks ago when stories about the "renegotiation" of the contract surfaced. The rumor mill is just spooling up on this so there isn't even any good calumniations to report but we hold out no hope for anything better than what we have now. The emperor still has no clothes and he's not about to come around after so many years of believing his own lies.
