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To: Dave who wrote (62198)	10/26/2001 1:15:29 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Dave - None of the things I listed, 32 bit FAT, the NAT capability, the resource management were available as a download. They were part of the base OS. In fact USB support was the main reason I upgraded to 98 in the first place. I bought an Epson scanner for an older machine I had which did not have USB built in. I upgraded it with a $39 PCI card. USB was standard in Intel chipsets for years before there was OS or product to support them (for example several 1996 vintage TYAN motherboards had USB built in). Win98 allowed that capability to be used. The linkage of IE as an OS component was a big step up in the ability to use it as a program component as well as a browser. The court data in fact showed the opposite of your suggestion and the appeals court ruling on that issue was one of the points of Microsoft's appeal on the broader case. On XP, I upgraded a number of machines. One has the Epson scanner mentioned above, one had a keyboard scanner, one had an ATI combination TV / Video card. I did not even have the usual problem of having to go to the hardware sites to download drivers - the XP drivers worked fine. The only hardware which caused a problem was a Matrox Rainbow Runner / Millennium II combo. That card has been retired for a while and never had any Win2K drivers. The card itself installed fine but the application software told me I needed to upgrade to Windows98 and ActiveX 3 ... I guess it did not correctly determine the OS and activeX versions I was running. So that machine will stay Win98.

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