(Please ignore this unless it has some relevance to you.) Thank you for all the information. Since I've not yet been able to understand how or why .NET is significant to *us* I really was intending simply to make the point that one can have reason to dislike much that Microsoft has been doing, possibly just because they don't distribute enough information about their products to the purchaser without repeated purchase of addon products.
Actually, I was pretty much a supporter of Microsoft, even during their court battle, until I started getting problems with their products because they were unable to keep their own products functioning, i.e., one cannot go back to the point of installation (apart from the now common requirement of formatting the hard drive) and have a working restart. Unfortunately the method of reformating to start over also means you doesn't have the previous edition to which you can apply the upgrade. Nor will one have all the "fixes." And then one likely will find one is installing all the other software one has purchased since birth (and possibly in the correct sequence to accommodate various upgrades of .dll that are part of some operating system). The size of the "repair" package I downloaded for my Win2000 system was so large as to suggest it may have replaced my entire original operating system. And if I corruption of one critical file occurs I just may have an operating system that I'll never be able to restore (sure hope my backup doesn't fail to be readable). I continue to believe they should provide use with more complete (and easily understood information) regarding both the use of their products and how to avoid their failures that cannot be cured by reinstalling the product. Their choice of providing updating on line seems inevitably to leave us with products that are prone to decay with time. But perhaps that is a natural evolution of the concept of making merchandise that will fail the week after the guarantee or warrantee expires. But, again, thank you for all the useful information that Microsoft probably thinks I should not be allowed to have because I didn't buy each and every upgrade/new edition of their products. > [Original Message] > From: Dave Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/11/2002 6:27:35 PM > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] NodeConfig, missing .dll error > > > > I'll bet money it doesn't say "please distribute our dlls as .zip files > and ask the end > > > users to unzip them into the windows partition" anywhere) > > > > You can hate microsoft for the way they do things, even it is the way they > > intended them to be done. <snip> _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
