Thanks.
BTW, I just found the following when I was looking for something else at the
RAND journal: Volume: Volume 31, No. 2
Issue: Summer 2000
Pages: pp. 253-272
Authors: Glenn Ellison and Drew Fudenberg
Title: The Neo-Luddite's Lament: Excessive Upgrades in the Software Industry
Abstract: We examine two reasons why a monopoly supplier of software may
introduce more upgrades than is socially
optimal when the upgrade is backward but not forward compatible, so users
who upgrade reduce others' network benefits.
One explanation involves a commitment problem: profits and social welfare
may suffer because ex post the monopolist will
want to sell the upgraded product to new consumers. The second involves
consumer heterogeneity. Here oversupply arises
from the difference between the externality that upgrades impose on the
marginal and average consumer, and from the effect of
upgrades on sales of the base good.
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From: Eric Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11926] RE: Re: RE: technology as a reason for hope?
RE
> this god-damned little paperclip
> animation that keeps irritating me AND
> WON'T GO AWAY.
I believe a few things can be done to kill this
nasty thing.
One approach, I recollect, does not involve any
menus within Word. (That would be far too obvious
of a thing to do: this is Microsoft after all).
Rather, you go to Start, Settings, Control Panel,
Add/Remove Programs, and click on Microsoft Office
setup.
Get the Microsoft set up doing by clicking on it
(it won't remove anything without you telling it
to) and then click on something like "Add or
Remove Features." Then expand directory under
Office Tools. Look for Office Assistant. Then I
think you right click on this name and select
something like "remove this horrible beast from my
computer you scumbag Microsoft." Or something like
that which indicates you want to remove it or not
have it installed. I can't really remember.
When you exit out of all this the operating system
might want you to restart the computer, but again
I can't remember. In any case at some point the
operating system does something to reconfigure
Office.
Now, wasn't that intuitive ;>)?
(You do the above at your own risk!)
Eric
