On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:44 +0100, Roy Wood wrote: > In all fairness here this is not a M$ problem but sheer laziness on the > part of the companies concerned.
I know you're very keen on Windows, Roy, but you're missing the point ... and this a point which applied (to some extent) to SMSQ. An operating system is just there to run your applications and manage your files. It's the job of the creator of a new version to make sure that it can cope with existing applications and files. The problem with the broadband connections was not with the ISP software, but with the drivers for the modems. There aren't that many chipsets for these, and M$ could have tried them out. > IE7 has also been available for a while and runs on XP so why > not check on an older machine first to see if it causes problems. A reasonable question for home users, but large companies expect the OS and software compatabilities to be sorted out by the publishers: after all, they pay enough in licence and support fees. M$ have always been like this. I remember in the 80s when their own Pascal compiler failed the ISO test because of compatability problems with MSDOS! _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
