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Re: [LUG] Microsoft cockup!



On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 5:18 am, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:47:32 +0000, Peter Butterfield wrote:
> > individuals and businesses affected? Bet someone in ms got the sack!
> > Anyone else heard about this or has it been kept quiet?
>
> Why do you care?
>
Trust, accountability, responsibility, cost of sorting problems out, getting 
an inocent third party in deep s*@t, do I need to go on? Plus, in regard to 
trust, most users do not realise what problems can occur so when a nice easy 
upgrade path is presented they expect it to be ok - especially from a company 
like ms.

On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 7:59 am, Ray Smith wrote:
> strange because the readme which most people don't read mention
> uninstalling previous version as it may cause problems.
> all it does is leave the previous version on the disk and file associations
> don't get updated properly.you have to uninstall the old one then set the
> association manually or uninstall both the reinstall the new version.
>
> never had to reformat.
>
> certain members as tactful as ever ;-)

I must admit I was surprised at the extent of the mess it caused but if you 
consider how integrated win os's are with their apps - especially ie and oe - 
and how integrated acro has become with these...perhaps the situation is 
getting worse.

Peter.

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