James Knott wrote:
bg wrote:
My theory is, Vista saw that you were running a non-MicroSquish
office suite, and decided to punish you by giving you some grief.
I'm only half kidding :-)
Brewster
It wouldn't be the first time that happened. They did it to DR-DOS
users trying to run Windows etc.
Wikipedia, at the DR DOS entry says:
A pre-release version of Windows 3.1 to returned a non-fatal error
message if it detected a non-Microsoft DOS. This check came to be known
as the AARD code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code>^[2]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#cite_note-1> . With the detection
code disabled, Windows ran perfectly under DR-DOS and its successor
Novell DOS. The code was present, but disabled in the released version
of Windows 3.1^[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#cite_note-2>
[2]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/[email protected]/editorial/aard/index.html
[3] http://www.ddj.com/windows/184409070?pgno=4
--David
