MS Laugh-In

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Oct 19 18:18:24 2000

>Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>
>> 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


I have, and it cant register as the systems it was put on have no modems
nor does the interanet they are on conect to the internet. Runs just
fine.

>have to register in order for it to keep working. I actually
>opened and quit Word 50 times to see what happened. It refused
>to keep working. So I registered, and it asked me whether I agreed
>to provide information about my computer to MS so that
>"they could offer me better technical support in the future".
>Needless to say, I refused, but I wonder how much the managed to find
>out about me in the process.


I'd heard about that and refuse to buy Word2000. Very simple, the
machines I manage cannot and will not talk to the outside. MS has
to fix that.

This is a rampent disease out there, the idea that network access
is fast and always there means they (VENDORs) can skip docs,
 final patches, updates by mail or a lot of other things we pay for.
I had to camp on Allaire to send a CD as they wanted me to
download the eval version of their CF4.51product, it's way to
big for a modem, even at 56k. HP dumped STAC (or did STAC
fail?) and I find out when the backups on the T20I travan failed.
Find that on the web site... nope. WE BUY this crap, that why
it is pandered.


Allison
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 18:18:24 BST