[plug] Windows Briefing

[John Breen]

Actually, the _only_ thing I have seen that I like about O2000 is the
way it can only be installed on one machine. (Sort of).  Well, actually
2...

Good for sellers of M$ stuff like me, not so good for software pirates
(and I won't say "like me" here...)

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Denis Brown [SMTP:dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au]
	Sent:	Friday, 11 June 1999 9:47
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] Windows Briefing

	At 08:14 11/06/99 +0800, John Breen wrote in part:
	>presenting was demonstrating how IE5 "remembers" where you've
been on
	>the web and allows autocompletion of URLs you are typing in.
The
	>
	This reminds me of the M$ blurb that crossed my desk a few days
ago
	regarding Office2000, part of which says:  "... Office 2000
*repairs
	itself* if things go wrong.  For example, if you accidentally
delete
	program files, MicroSoft Office 2000 *automatically reinstalls*
them for
	you, so you can keep working without having to worry ..."  The
emphasis
	(bolding) is theirs.  Tad scary, huh?

	<RANT aka wry grin>
	O97 is big enough.  O2000 is likely to be larger.  Now M$ users
have to
	have an obviously large part of the install suite resident on
the disk and
	standing ready in case a frustrated user nukes its tender
workings.  Quite
	apart from the fact that standard installations bury the tender
workings of
	O97 in directories of which the average user isn't even going to
be aware,
	let alone get down there and "accidentally" delete files!
	</RANT>

	Cheers,
	Denis