Hi Samy
Yep it was the win 95 upgrade poly that forced you to buy another copy of windows if you wanted any of the enhancements. I ended up waiting till win98 came out as by then I realy needed the fat32 support. That cost me 89.00 just cause I needed FAT32 suport. So yes I am still pissed off about it.
True. That was frustrating. However it wasn't, IMO, and ingenious ploy to get you to buy another copy. Why do I say this? Simply put, if the OEM's followed the licensing agreement packaged with OSR2, they were not allowed to sell it separate from a new PC. So to me, it looks like MS just released it to keep the OEMs who wanted USB and big hard disks on their PCs happy.
That and the preformance of linux/samba is realy what pushed it over the edge and got me to give linux a try. Started with suse linux and we are currenly moving over to linux and phasing out windows. In otherwords all new boxes get linux , while thetwo current windows(dual boot) support our windows needs for the two windows apps that we havent gotton onto linux. I feel so strongly that I will not be upgrading to win2000/win me and would rather hoold at win98 and move to linux app byt app , and putting it on new machines as they come in.
I'm trying to do the same. I have a dual-boot PC, and I'm trying to trade so that rather than booting into Windows on a typical day, I will instead boot to Linux. I only need one more app to do this - a e-mail client with most of the features of Outlook. Mahogany looks good, I just need to try it a bit.
Yep found the 20.00 upgrade on M$.com , but you wont find it made avialable at compusa otr any retial outlet.
True, and that is a bad thing. The aforementioned MS-DOS 6.22 upgrade was everywhere. Dunno why they didn't do the same here, but at least it is better than OSR2... I must also give them credit for offering a CD with the urgent upgrades absolutely free (including free S&H) - this is great, because on a low-bandwidth connect you can't be downloading all day (thus why I buy SuSE Linux rather than download it). -Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ===================== "Solutions that Work" =====================
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