Funny you should mention this scenerio. David Coursey, the M$ favoring columnist for ZDNET, recently got biten by this very thing. While on a plane from California to NY or Chicago to attend and report on an industry convention (no doubt to get more info to use to promote M$) his laptop did the very same thing. He was putting (or was going to attempt to) the finishing touches on an article/presentation while flying at 30,000 feet up and about 1200 miles away from his OfficeXP disc when the very thing you mention occurred. He was looked out of OfficeXP and could access anything other than the ability to "view" the document - no edit, save, copy, or print functions. As stated before, the disc was back in San Francisco and he had no access to it. A fitting thing to happen to him considering that he is (or was) a shameless M$ advocate (or sellout). Also, the copy of OfficeXP he had received was given to him as a promotional gift from Redmond themselves. He was, to say the least, disturbed by this and due to this I have noticed a change in the tenor of his article about M$ - hes a little more critical. Just wait 'till this happens to some Senior VP or the CIO - the best way to change peoples attitude about the weakness and shotty nature of M$ products is to let them use it and eXPerience the joys of M$ products. This will become especially true in light of the growing popularity of Linux and the fact the XP has full Unix powered network sockets/protocals - the next year will be the "year of the worm" and if you thought 1300 NT/W2K/IIS patches last year are excessive - just wait - the fun is just starting! Just MHO, Curtis On Friday 14 December 2001 15:19, JW wrote:
At 12:59 PM 12/14/2001 -0800, you wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, JW wrote:
Do you know this from eXperience (pun intended), or did you red that somewhere?
( s/red/read/g )
I'm a QA analyst in my day job. We installed XP in our QA lab
Microsoft started selling XP on October 25, so I figure a couple days before Christmas this is going to start biting the general public.
Wow, that will be _cool_ ! :-)
Just wait till some CEO rushes in to work some morning to do something he was supposed to do the previous day and gets a "we're sorry, you can't access your data until you get a new validation code" message box :-)
Perhaps that will bring about a change in the general public's attitude. (but then, perhaps not :-/ )
Bear
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