Microsoft has made many milestones with the personal computer, including making access to the internet an easy thing to do. Not including dial up access, new affordable internet access has made it possible to access the internet at high speed. Where faster internet access is desirable for groups of computers and internet server computers, the asymmetrical subscriber line was capable of T-1 speeds available to educational and scientific organizations. Since the asymmetrical subscriber line, new methods of delivering a signal through whatever means possible including electrical power it's self, has made internet access even faster, comparable to a digital trunk line or fiber optic system. Cable internet access, or a signal through coaxial cable already laid throughout thousands of rural homes is very enumerative. But what about internet access on the go, downtown in the fast moving city next to local shops and restaurants?

Microsoft has an easy solution, Microsoft Proxy server. Microsoft proxy server includes a client which can enumerate any internet program with no special settings through modifying the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP stack to access Microsoft Proxy Server connected to any internet connection. Why use Microsoft Proxy server? Users have their own way of using Microsoft Windows every time that they have an opportunity to use it. This does not mean it is predictable, but inevitable that Windows will incorporate the users every move. Doing this does not make it easier for someone else to use the same computer. Microsoft Policy editor includes a number of features that are unlocked with the use of a Microsoft Windows Server. For example, there are extra rules not included with the Policy editor available to a Server computer. Microsoft Proxy Server can also run on the same Microsoft Windows Server computer. An administrator can then implement a Policy detail which would access an ideal settings stored on the server and made available to every client computer at the same time, every time.

However, this is not to say that Windows is imperfect. More recently, the most valuable way to deliver public internet access with windows computers is to erase every move the previous user has made by loading the desktop computer from an image every time a public user logs off the computer. This way, public users can install software, send email, tinker with settings and even be destructive without changing the image which is loaded by the server. Users are free to use Windows any way that they so desire.

Although it would seem that Windows has lost the battle, they haven't lost the War; yet.