I don't know for sure, but I did hear a few weeks back that you can't
download Netscape using the MSN Explorer or whatever they call their
GUI.

My sister has MSN, but I think she just got her computer and I think 
she runs everything as it came so I can't really help you there either.

Matt

>Hello:
>
>Does anyone know if msn.com is a pseudo ISP of the type that limits
>access only to the operating systems and software which they approve of?
>I ask this because somebody I know got sucked into a three year contract
>with msn.com and she wants to know if her ISP can be accessed with
>operating systems and software that are not approved by Micro$oft.  
>You know how strongly they feel against such undesireable customers who
>aren't buying their latest operating systems and software and who aren't
>interested in downloading and installing their upgrades and who aren't
>buying a brand new computer every year.
>
>I wonder if the brilliant systems engineers at msn.com have done
>something to "fix" their ISP so as to deliberately cause the older 
>Windows operating systems and the older versions of MSIE to run so much 
>slower than they used to.  As you all know, Bill Gates has cultivated
>quite an obsession for wanting to "fix" any system that works. 
>
>Sam Heywood
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