At 01:40 PM 7/8/1998 -0700, Barry Lee Brisco so eloquently stated:
>>From Advanced-HTML:
>>
>>RE the Reuters wire story below:
>>This is EXACTLY the same crap that MS used with early versions Windows
>>-- when a machine had a different version of DOS [where there WERE
>>different versions of DOS] -- the user would get a "this may not work"
>>error message.
>>
>>And look that this additional crap - FrontPage 98 COMES WITH WIN98
>>Installed???? is this bloody true?
>>
>>
>>> >*** Microsoft, Internet provider scrap over error message
>>> >
>>> >An angry Internet service provider based in Canada said Microsoft
>>> >Corp.'s new Windows 98 software appeared to suggest some of his
>>> >customers should go elsewhere. The suggestion popped up in several
>>> >error messages on the customers' computer screens, the pesky boxes
>>> >that flash on to a screen when something is not quite right. "You
>>> >might want to try selecting 'other Internet provider' from the list
>>> >of Internet service providers," one of the messages said in part.
>>> >That and similar error messages showed up for some users who tried to
>>> >publish Web pages they had composed with Microsoft's Front Page
>>> >Express, which comes with the Windows 98 operating system software.
>
>Kathy, I doubt that FP comes with Win98. Though perhaps the latest version
>of IEv4 has some FP capabilities built in, just as Communicator includes
>Netscape Composer for web authoring?
>
>I suspect this incident occurred when web newbies using FP went to
>"publish" (upload through FP) their pages and the ISPs web server was not
>equipped to handle FP protocols (i.e., proprietary MS horseshit). This
>would be a problem. I believe it is correct that you can't publish web
>pages with FP unless the server has the FP extensions installed. Others no
>doubt no more about this...
>
Nope. Not if you know what you are doing and use FTP.
George
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