I attempted to send a message to the list a few days ago,
that quoted Ed Foster of Info-World, and some of his correspondents.
For some reason, that note never reached the list. One of the items
was that MS has dragooned its slave hardware distributors NOT to
provide the Windows 98 OS disk with the computer that it is installed
on. As a result, if your disk dies, you have no MS Windows to reinstall.
Not only that, when you try to install certain software, and it says,
"Insert your Windows 98 CD in the drive," you are SOL. AND, Ms has done
this on the sneak. It has not announced this policy, you find out at
your own risk. (I.e., when you look for the disk.)
The Info-World article quoted some of Foster's correspondents, one of
whom quoted an unnamed MS official, as saying that the medialess
sales were designed to eliminate those who would try other OS's,
like LInux, since if anything should go wrong, there would be no
back-out strategy available.
The thread seems to have run from about the first week in May to the
first week in June, and you can find it on line with
http://www.infoworld.com
and then go to the columns or the opinions or whatever, looking for
Ed Foster.
You should be warned about the medialess Windows 98 policy, and you
should think about this arrogance right in the face of the Jackson
ruling, to see how you think about MS. Not only the competition
gets it in the eye, so does the end user!
--doug
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