On 13 Sep 2005 at 9:51, Doug Thompson wrote: ... > I have observed that the installation default behavior has been modified > in some of the more recent beta candidates. Now if M$Office, or some > portion of it, is installed on the computer, the "Use as default" > checkboxes are left unchecked for the portions of M$O that are installed > and are automatically checked for the M$O apps that are not present. A > problem is that I haven't seen this behavior documented any more than > previous ones, and this has to be even more confusing to the masses.
Sorry, but that looks a bad idea to me: someone installing on multiple machines, not all alike in their M$-ware, could easily just click through, not noticing the default tick boxes had changed on the 10th machine...... A default should be predictable. -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
