Mr. pooh, or whatever your name is.

You are correct, I did not read the whitepaper. I do not need to read the whitepaper to know that turning something off which is on by default means more work for me.

I am a network admin, and my network works just fine thank you very much. No issues here with ANY worm or virus or hacks in 5 years. My not liking the idea of a builtin windows firewall means nothing about my abilities as a network admin. I can easily understand the added controll this MAY enable, forgive me for being skeptical, not bothering to read a microsoft whitepaper telling me how wonderfull microsofts latest feature is. I am not a fanboi. I will wait to see how it really performs before making a judgement, I was merely asking some questions of others here who had more information, such as yourself, you HAVE used it you say? Attacking someone(i.e. calling into question their abilities) for asking legitimate questions(i.e. calling into question their abilities), which I did, and backing them up with examples, which I did, well .... how much is MS paying you?

Intelligent network design, policy and user education have served us very well for years now, without any HELP from a builtin microsoft firewall.

All the builtin firewall will do for us(except possibly laptops) is break things which work well and securely now. It took lots of tweaking to get everything locked down yet still working adding this new complexity will certainly cause problems.

I have seen your, all losers should upgrade to the absolute latest blahblahblah post, you need to keep in mind that many organizations have to meet requirements for certain aspects of their operation. Those requirements often have certain requirements for what system they run on, this prevents accross the board upgrades whenever Microsoft decides their bank accounts are too low and they decide to release their latest early beta test quality application or OS as a finished product.