More microsoft monopoly::Re: NT 4.0 Option Pack released (fwd)
Microsoft has now broken up the Service Packs into Bug Fix and Option Pack
(new feechures) packages.
However the catch is this: they require you to have Internet Exploiter
4.01 installed *BEFORE* you can install the Option Pack (whose features
have little to do with Internet Exploiter, though they are part of the
IIS web server. For example RAIDUS Remote Access Authentication has
nothing to do with Exploiter.)
IMHO: This is a cheap shot at making their browser more "incorporated"
with the OS, that way they can get around the Justice Dept. :( Lame.
Another message claims VC++ requires IE as well -- can anyone confirm
this?
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Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:08:57 -0500
From: Russ
Its important to note that IE4.01 *must* be installed prior to installing any of the NTOP components.
And MSIE must be installed before installing Visual C++.. Soon we hav= e it that MSIE must be installed before TCP/IP is installed... and then befo= re NT in installed! Is there no limit to this??? Is there any way to prevent = MS from *FORCING* us to install MSIE - other than boycott all MS products entirely (with NT5 it would seem that we have to boycott even the OS to= save ourselves from MSIE)??? Sorry the bitter tone - I just don't like programs that require me to install yet another program which I don't want to install. --=20 ----------------------------------------------- | Juha J=E4ykk=E4, juolja@utu.fi | | home: http://www.utu.fi/~juolja/ | | pgp-key: http://www.utu.fi/~juolja/pgp.txt | -----------------------------------------------
At 10:52 AM 12/3/97 -0500, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Microsoft has now broken up the Service Packs into Bug Fix and Option Pack (new feechures) packages.
However the catch is this: they require you to have Internet Exploiter 4.01 installed *BEFORE* you can install the Option Pack (whose features have little to do with Internet Exploiter, though they are part of the IIS web server. For example RAIDUS Remote Access Authentication has nothing to do with Exploiter.)
IMHO: This is a cheap shot at making their browser more "incorporated" with the OS, that way they can get around the Justice Dept. :( Lame. Another message claims VC++ requires IE as well -- can anyone confirm this?
You must have IE (3+) installed in order to use MS's visual java, FYI. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Information is a dense, colorless, odorless material readily transmitted across empty space and arbitrary boundaries by shaking charged particles.
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