[plug] Windows 98 service pack one already in beta!...

David Buddrige David.Buddrige at optum.com.au
Wed Jul 8 11:28:38 WST 1998


Well don't look now... it seems M$ has changed their mind about the service
pack... and they deny that there's anything unusually wrong with 98 to
boot... 8-)

They seem to have an interesting "revisionist" view of history.... 

http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/pcwt980707001/www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0706/07
apack.html

regards

DB-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Shackleton, Kevin [SMTP:kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 08, 1998 10:10 AM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	RE: [plug] Windows 98 service pack one already in beta!...
> 
> What I _really_ love about Access is the consistent incompatibility
> between versions - not a bad effort for a SQL-based client.
> 
> K.
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Bevan Broun[SMTP:bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au]
> > Reply To: 	plug at linux.org.au
> > Sent: 	Wednesday, 8 July 1998 0:43
> > To: 	plug at linux.org.au
> > Subject: 	Re: [plug] Windows 98 service pack one already in
> > beta!...
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:28:00PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> > > the service pack before they even released the product!!!!)  (I
> > don't know
> > > why they don't just get the first version working first, before
> > > releasing....) *shake of head*  oh well...
> > 
> > If the waited until they got it right the would have the problem of
> > win98 being released in 1999 which is almost as silly as Access 7.0
> > following from Access 2.0
> > 
> > BB
> > -- 
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> > 


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