On 5/13/04 6:07 PM, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This story has been fully *discredited*. Anyone looking for an installer for >> Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X on P2P networks like Limewire should >> *expect* bad things to happen to them. >> >> What makes people think Microsoft would post a *free* installer of their >> most popular Mac OS software on a notorious pirate software network instead >> of....oh...I don't know.....Mactopia.com!? > > Discredited? I know someone who found the file on Gnutella. It is said to be > a "web installer", which, if you recall from the OS 9 days, was used from > time to time so users could select certain modules and only download and > install what they want. I remember QT and Netscape, among others, using > this. > > No one said that Microsoft posted the installer... But I'm sure there are > other MS products available through P2P services like Gnutella. And they only exist on P2P...no announcement, no press release, no hint on the web site? john -- "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
