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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (24055)	2/8/2001 5:22:41 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Harvey, This is from the CNET Rumor MIll column (Dec. 1 2000). "Upgrade hell Will someone give Microsoft a break? Not me--or at least not my correspondents. One recently wrote to me explaining how older versions of Internet Explorer can't access Microsoft upgrades on the Web, forcing people to resort to Netscape's browser to get the job done. "So we're doing some software testing and needed to get in all sorts of different versions of Windows and browsers and so on. Obviously, we had to include Win/NT 4.0, which while it's not a current product is very very widely deployed out there. Turns out that NT4 ships with a version of IE so old that you can't access enough of the Microsoft site to get the latest IE or even the service packs you probably want to install. So you have to use the moldy old IE on NT to go to home.netscape.com and get Netscape going. Then you can go to Microsoft and get the latest IE. Then with the latest IE you can get the service packs. Snicker." Microsoft didn't get back to me on this one. Meanwhile, what folks around here want to know is: Can you get Netscape 6 going? " Thure

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