Let's take some time out for a reality check, shall we? I'll state up front that I have no real love for Bill Gates & his empire. Having said that, let's go back over the diatribe levelled at MS in the last digest:
"Bill's making $US299 a copy of XP" - well, damn me - isn't "making a buck" supposed to be the "American way"?; "Why do people think they have to have the latest" - probably for the same reason they think they have to have the latest of MI - support dries up; "I don't like the security issues" - well there are cheap & simple ways around that - do your surfing, emailing etc from a secure partition, get yourself a decent firewall (try ZoneAlarm Pro); and as for the inferred horrific cost of upgrading your OS (yes, I know that if you're jumping from 98 or NT35 or even early Me, you'll probably be up for a hardware upgrade - but you need grunt for all the latest 3D enhancements & anyway, who wants a 500MHz PII anymore - we all want 1.5GHz, don't we?), remember that it costs over $US1500 for a brand new copy of the latest MI (over $US750 for an upgrade) & I don't hear many gripes about THAT. Consider, also, that over here that equates to >$AUD3000 for a new licence. Consider, also, all the gripes that get posted to the list about how MI doesn't listen, doesn't give us the enhancements we want etc etc etc (as the King of Siam once said). I'd like the ability to automatically put path, filename layout title and date printed as a header/footer for every workspace I print (like I can put on my word, excel powerpoint & access documents) but I bet I won't get it. Look at all the software written for windows, Bill, & you'll understand why people don't really want to go away from it. I'm not talking the cheap word & data processing stuff here - I'm talking >$AUD5000 packages for statistics, engineering etc - few (if any) of which are available for anything else except maybe Unix. Personally, I tested MI65 on my 800MHz PIII 640MB WinXP machine just to see if there were compatibility problems - result - none I could find. What the hell are you all complaining about? Richard Hammond General, Atmospheric & Maritime Environmental Services (GenAMES) ABN 32 991 550 356 PO Box 77, LAUNCESTON, Tas, 7250, Australia E-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
