Re: Standards have to be respected.

From: Jeff Relf (Usenet_2__at_JeffRelf.Cotse.NET)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: 15 Sep 2004 12:50:14 GMT

Hi Rex Ballard,

You wrote: <<

  The program that worked with Windows XP SP1
  will be completely crippled by SP2. >>

I downloaded WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.EXE,
  Win XP Service Pack 2, 12 days ago...

  ...not once did I encounter a problem with it.

  And I'm using a broadband ( cable ) connection,
  Moz FireFox .9, Visual Studio C++ 7.1 ( 2003 ),
  MS Word 2000, my own hand-rolled programs, etc.

  FireFox upgrades always require a clean install,
  it has minimal backwards compatibility.

  I hear than Linux has problems like that.

  MS VC7 ( from VC6 ) required a clean install.

You wrote: <<

  If you want something that will provide
  reliable access to documents and records for years to come,
  and from years ago - Microsoft is NOT the choice. >>

Yea, I haven't personally encountered any such problems.

  Have you ?

  I was a bit worried when Windows first went to 32 bit code,
  but even that turned out to be a non-issue for me.

My professor has some really old Word docs
  that he had to convert recently.

Running the latest version does help.

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