MS Laugh-In

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 13:51:18 2000

I'm told that the principal difference between W98SE and ME is that you
can't install ME without first registering it. I haven't tried it, so I
don't know whether that's really the case, but . . .

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: MS Laugh-In


> >> >I take it the market doesn't yet trust W2000 and SP3 will be a while
yet.
> >> Most people have no desire to update their OS from W95 or W98, not
broken
> >> don't fix it attitude.
> >
> >"not broken"!??????!?????!????!????!????!?????!??
> >w95 or w98 is "not broken"???????????????????????
> >Consider, instead, the idea that some folk would not like to replace
> >broken with even more broken.
> >
> >
> >> Standing in line, and paying full price for beta
> >> software has lost its chic.
> >
> >W2000 is no longer Beta.
> >WinBlow Me is no longer Beta?
> >
> >
> >> Stability is currently more popular than
> >> features.
> >
> >Wouldst that 'twere so.
> >MICROS~1 sales have not fallen off enough to support the premise that the
> >public has learned to desire stability.
>
> W95 and W98 are both working fine for me. I have been paranoid enough to
> apply all the patches etc. (flash bios, etc.), and avoid any new MS
> products until the bug fixes come out. Working to me means, the programs I
> want to use will run, and right now they do.
>
> Anything prior to about the second service pack release I call Beta.
>
> MS can migrate ALL the new system vendors, so those OS sales are in the
> can, what I don't think is happening are the upgrades of W9x to these
> latest versions.
>
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 13:51:18 BST