More microsoft monopoly::Re: NT 4.0 Option Pack released (fwd)

[David Honig]

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.



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