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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (59322)	7/2/2001 2:42:35 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) of 74651

You've got it backwards. Microsoft's expertise at wielding the registry as a bludgeon with which to pummel its competitors into submission is part of the problem. The story says that Microsoft's Windows XP breaks Kodak's software, not that XP doesn't install itself correctly. Microsoft has an ignominious history of attacking competitive threats with the registry. A prime example is QuickTime, whose registry entries were overwritten by certain Windows updates, so that QuickTime movies would be opened by Windows Media Player, which would complain that the files were unreadable or corrupted. Dave

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