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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17238)2/7/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Readers offer ways vendors can deliver them from DLL hell infoworld.com

Or, maybe that's where you want to go.

Application vendors should be prohibited from distributing parts of the OS with their applications," writes Kevin Klein of Millennium Partners. "It ought to be Microsoft's responsibility to provide a stable platform for running applications (that's what an OS is, after all). The whole Windows\System32 subdirectory should be write-protected to applications. All of the interim bug fixes and API upgrades should be packaged by Microsoft into clearly identifiable units, similar to the current service packs but with finer granularity, and released much more frequently."

Sounds good, I guess. Maybe you should just keep IE4 around and always reinstall it last. I don't quite understand why the Windows runtime dll's aren't readonly to begin with.

Mark Thrailkill writes, "Since Microsoft released VB 5 with newer versions of VB 4 controls without backward compatibility -- thereby creating the potential for the installation of VB 5 applications to disable VB 4 applications using the same controls -- do they care?"

Is that a rhetorical question? Putting the customers first, the OEMs as Microsoft's most important customers have a lot of experience with Microsoft's postition on that quaint little maxim.

I can't claim any special knowledge in this area, just another source of amusement.

Cheers, Dan.
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