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Subject:    RE: How about a IE clone for Linux?
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-03-19 5:04:32
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> "Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
> >   I must disagree with you. (1) Microsoft, nor Apple, nor most reputable
> > proprietary companies force new updates on you. I know too many
> people still
> > using Windows 95 (rather the 98), and it is plenty of proof they don't.
>
> Really?  How about a few examples to the contrary.  I work for a rather
> small computer shop, and even I have had customers ask me why they were
> forced to install IE 5 along with the latest copy of quicken.  One of

  Like I said, reputable. I have a sting dislike for Intuit. I can live with
MS, but _not_ with Intuit...

> them was _really_ upset, because one of the primary locations that she
> conducts business does not allow internet access, and quicken apparently
> REQUIRES that you update it's tax tables (or something) over the
> internet, or it will stop working.  If it's updating it's tables, I
> wonder if it that's the only thing it's updating.  Maybe a bugfix or
> two...maybe an additional IE component...  Didn't someone say earlier
> that Microsoft has purchased Intuit??

  They tried (in 1996), the government wouldn't let the merger pass.


> And what about Internet Connection Sharing.  Is that available as a
> separate product?  No!  Not from Microsoft, anyway.  If you want that,
> you'll have to "upgrade" to an OS that's considerably less stable, has
> more resource requirements, contains _EVERY_MAJOR_FLAW_ in Win95 that I
> know of, and has abysmal PCI handling.

 True, if you want ICS, you _must_ have Windows 98. HOWEVER, I doesn't force
you to upgrade in the basic sense (the message I responded to insinuated
that you'd turn off your PC one night, and Win98 would be on it the next day
kinda stuff).



> Yes, autodial is good, but dialing will never be transparent.  The delay
> in particular prevents that.  IMHO, diald is better than Windows'
> autodial.

  I like a GUI autodial since I'm on a single phone line system. I want to
be able to tell the system to stay offline if I'd like to.

>
> And I hate the auto-fill in IE.  The ONLY thing that I'm going to ever
> fill in repeatedly is usernames/passwords.  I DO NOT want a single user
> OS to remember my usernames and passwords.  I believe that there was a
> bugtraq announcement over an issue with IE remembering things that it
> was specifically told not to...

  IE username/password autofill is seperate from the normal autofill. Before
it activates it specifically prompts you and asks if "Windows should
remember this password."

  -Tim

> I'm done ranting now.  :)
> MSG
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